EXETREMLY  RARE,

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EXETREMLY RARE Over 2000 YRS OLD THIK & HEAVY IRON HOLE COIN INDIA

Over 2000 YRS OLD THIK & HEAVY IRON MIX METAL HOLE COIN INDIA

HAND MADE COIN,

IRON COINS USED IN THE BC CENTURY

THIS IRON COIN IS ROUND WHICH HAS A JOINT JOINING THE TWO ENDS TOGETHER, THIS COIN IS HAND MADE, YOU CAN TELL THIS BY LOOKING AT THE JOINT, IT ALSO HAS A HALLOW (HOLE) GOING THROUGH THE COIN,

IT IS A HEAVY COIN BECOUSE IT HAS BEN MADE USING THICK / HEAVY IRON,

THESE COINS ARE DIFFERENTS SHAPE SIZE AND WEIGHT,

This coin Size: 19mm, x 17mm,

Before the introduction of coinage, the cowrie, a small white shell with the shape of a coffee bean seems to have been the main currency.³ One supposes that the Maldives were the principal production center of this kind of money that was exported as far as China and West-Africa.⁴ The transition of this moneyless economy^d, in which the cowrie played an extremely important role into a monetary economy was marked by a transitory phase, during

First coins made?

• The history of coins extends from ancient times to the present. Coins are still widely used for monetary and other purposes. Any history of coins is going to be very incomplete, money being a central theme in human history since its invention. One could approach the history of minting technologies, the history shown by the images on coins, the history of economics, the history of coin collecting or collectors, or many other topics.
   
  In a tomb of Shang Dynasty dating back to 11th century BC shows the first cast copper money.
  
  All western histories of coins begin with their invention between 643 and 630 BC in Lydia. Since that time, coins have been the most universal embodiment of money. These first coins were made of electrum, a naturally occurring pale yellow mixture of gold and silver. However, archaeologists have recently found 477+ ancient coins dating from 2000-4000 BC at an ancient Thracian site in Tekirdağ, Turkey; pushing the possible coinage date even further back. However, the coins in question have yet to be identified and authenticated by competent authority. Until such time as the 477+ coins from this site have been studied their actual age has yet to be verified.
  
  Also the Persian coins were very famous in the Persian and Sassanids era. There are lots of coins that have been found in Susa and in Ctesiphon

England, AD 1066-87 picture inside

A die used to strike coins for William the Conqueror

Medieval coins were struck by hand, normally using a hammer and a pair of dies. These pressed the design into the surfaces of the blank coin. Dies from the early Middle Ages are rarely found for a number of reasons: they were sometimes re-used, becoming shorter each time a new design was cut into the face; they were probably also sometimes destroyed after use, to prevent them from falling into the hands of forgers; dies were made of iron, and iron corrodes very easily; some dies may have been found but not recognized, simply because of their condition.

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