Coin

The original of money has been reaching in the deep history it is older then written relics. The goods were exchanged for the goods for thousands of years. In that time the value of exchangeable unit changed during time and it was depend on the given are. In this ” system” like money served practically all: bones, conches, corn, cattle, and linen, bronze equipment a pieces of gold or silver. This heavy, arbitrates change was put away by certain goods, which became the common ”means of payment”: cattle, linen and especially metals. From that time Latin Language has got derived from the express” cattle”[pecus] the express for money [pecunia] and Czech ” pay” [platit] coming from ”[platno= linen]”. During a next development metals wan however and it was especially for it, that they could be divided easily.

It could be supposed that the first coin was used about 4500 years ago. The first written records are to disposal from ancient Mesopotamian Empire on the earthen tables with cuneiforms] Chammuraphy`s code [1792 – 1750 before Christ]. Here – and later on Crete and in The Front India and The Front Asia – businessmen started regular pieces of metal marked as meaning of certain solid weight. These Babylonia’s weight norms became the base of all later coin’s system, starting with Greek one.

The first coin – this one as we know it in this day – as the regular, guaranteed by state payments were created at Small – Asian Greeks [Jone] probably sometime in the end of 7th century before our age. These oldest coins were so called ” Elektra “, it means from alloy of gold and silver. Later these ones were from silver, gold and bronze. The coins were coined. They were produced this way that the weighted, heated a piece of metal was put between two metal forms [matrice] with the hollowed relieves and up the top it was struck by a hammer [the bottom side was fastened into the anvil]”.

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Greek's coin from 2. quarter 5. century. b. c.

The worth of coin was formed by weight and the kind of used metal The weight units were at the same time the coin’s units: The lessen weight or cheaper metal meant the lessen of purchase force of coin. The Value of silver to value of gold was approximately 1; 10 and the ratio of value of silver to bronze was average 1: 100.

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The Roman shed pound as

In ancient Roma bronze was used as exchanging metal. The reason was this obviously, that on the territory of the Italian peninsula was lack of the finding – places of gold and silver. The value of bronze was adjusted in famous rules of 12 desks from time about450 before our age. The first Roma coins were created from small lump of bronze [aes rude]. Real coins started to coin since 3rd century before our age. They were heavy, from copper and cast [aes grave] for the inner need. Later so-called ” librale as” became the basic units with a weight of 1 Libra [0,3 kg], again cast from copper. Next coins, which were the part of as, had different pictures and marked values. Gold coins often started to coin only in the time of Caesar and especially during his empire [since 1st century our time]. Even if Romance’s mint’s system took, they put to it something new and theirs: partly the various announced notices and partly occasion coin of coins. The both were taken by other states the same as the base of the mint’s system.

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The Roman’s gold – coin [aureus] from a half of 1st century of our age.


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