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The first coins were made in ancient Lydia. Answer true or false.
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- a standardized piece of metal issued by an authority as a medium of exchange, stamped with a mark guaranteeing weight/value
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- , americanhistory.si.edu, anu classics museum, greek coins (https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/classics-museum/catalogue/object-clusters/greek-coins); austrian archaeological institute, early lydian coinage and chronology (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/research/classical-studies/numismatics/early-lydian-coinage-and-chronology), art-museum.unimelb.edu.au, artsandculture.google.com, boi.org.il, britannica, 'coin' entry (history of coinage: lydian electrum coins, c. 7th-6th century bce); corroborated by the british museum collection notes on early lydian electrum staters, british museum, 'coins of ancient lydia' / herodotus, the histories (book i): the lydians, under king alyattes/croesus in the 7th century bce, are credited by numismatic historians and classical sources as the first to mint standardized stamped coinage (electrum), british museum, 'history of coinage' (britishmuseum.org): the earliest coins were struck from electrum in the kingdom of lydia (western anatolia) in the 7th century bce under king alyattes, a fact corroborated by herodotus, histories 1.94., british museum, 'history of the world in 100 objects' / numismatic consensus: the earliest coins were electrum coins minted in lydia (western anatolia) under king alyattes in the 7th century bce, corroborated by herodotus (histories 1.94) crediting the lydians with being the first to mint and use coins of gold and silver., coinweek.com, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopaedia britannica, "coin" (history of coinage) and the british museum's catalogue entry on lydian electrum coinage, both of which state that the earliest coins were struck in lydia (western anatolia) in the 7th century bce under the mermnad kings, predating greek and persian coinages., encyclopaedia britannica, "coin" / "lydia" entries; british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage, both stating that the kingdom of lydia (western anatolia, c. 7th century bce, under king alyattes) produced the earliest known standardized coins, made of electrum., encyclopaedia britannica, "coin" entry: electrum coins struck in lydia (western anatolia) under king alyattes in the 7th century bce are the earliest known coins; corroborated by the british museum's description of lydian electrum staters as the world's first coinage., encyclopaedia britannica, "lydia" / "coin" entries: the lydians (western anatolia, 7th century bc, under king alyattes) are credited by numismatists and historians as the inventors of the first standardized electrum/metal stamped coinage., encyclopaedia britannica, "lydia" / "coin" entries; british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage (c. 7th century bce, reign of alyattes), widely cited as the earliest known coinage, encyclopaedia britannica, "lydia" / "coin" entries; british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage: the kingdom of lydia (western anatolia, 7th century bce, under king alyattes) is credited by numismatic consensus with producing the first standardized metal coins, made of electrum., encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' (history of coinage) and the british museum numismatics collection notes both state that the earliest coins were electrum pieces produced in the kingdom of lydia in the 7th century bce, under king alyattes; this is the scholarly consensus in numismatics and ancient history., encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' (numismatics) entry: 'the first coins ... were apparently made in lydia in the 7th century bce'; corroborated by the british museum's description of the lydian electrum trite as among the earliest coins, c. 600 bc, encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' (numismatics): the earliest coins were struck in lydia (western asia minor) under king alyattes in the 7th century bc, from electrum., encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' (numismatics); and the british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage: both state that the earliest coins were struck in lydia (western anatolia) in the 7th century bce, under king alyattes, using electrum., encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' / 'coinage' entries, and the british museum's numismatic collection notes, which attribute the earliest coins to lydian electrum issues c. 600 bce, encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' article (history of coinage: earliest coins minted in lydia, c. 7th century bce); corroborated by the standard numismatic account of lydian electrum staters (wikipedia, 'lydian currency' / 'electrum coinage'), encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' entry, and the british museum's numismatic collection notes, both stating that the earliest coins were electrum pieces struck in the kingdom of lydia in the 7th century bce, predating other early candidates (e.g., china's cast bronze money)., encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin: history' (and standard numismatic consensus, e.g. british museum): the earliest coins were electrum pieces struck in lydia (asia minor) in the 7th century bce, generally credited as the first true coinage., encyclopaedia britannica, 'lydia' and 'coin' entries; british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage under king alyattes (c. 7th century bce), widely cited as the earliest known coinage, encyclopaedia britannica, 'lydia' and 'coin' entries; british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage, both attributing the earliest standardized minted coins to the kingdom of lydia under alyattes (c. 7th century bce), encyclopaedia britannica, 'lydia' and 'coin' entries; british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage: the earliest known coins are the electrum 'lion head' coins minted in lydia (western anatolia) under king alyattes in the 7th century bce, widely cited as the first true coinage., frank l. holt / oxford university press, 'the invention of the first coinage in ancient lydia,' world history encyclopedia (2021): https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1793/the-invention-of-the-first-coinage-in-ancient-lydi/, hallie ford museum of art, ‘lydian electrum’: https://library.willamette.edu/hfma/omeka/exhibits/show/coinsofthegreekandromanworld/item/14 (says the first coins were issued in the area of lydia, based on findspot evidence)., herodotus, histories 1.94 ("the lydians were the first to mint and use a coinage of gold and silver"), and the lydian electrum coin findspots and dating summarized at https://sardisexpedition.org/en/essays/latw-kroll-coins-of-sardis and https://library.willamette.edu/hfma/omeka/items/show/14 (lydian electrum coinage, c. 640-620 bc for the artemision deposit)., herodotus, histories 1.94 (5th c. bce), crediting the lydians with inventing coined money; corroborated by numismatic scholarship on electrum coins excavated from the foundation deposit of the temple of artemis at ephesus (c. 7th century bce), generally cited as the earliest known coinage (e.g. british museum collection records)., herodotus, histories 1.94 (lydian coinage of gold and silver, croesus); pliny the elder, natural history 33.46; standard numismatic references (e.g. british museum collection notes on lydian electrum staters) date the earliest coins to lydia c. 600 bce, herodotus, histories 1.94 (lydians as first to mint and use gold and silver coins); encyclopaedia britannica, 'coin' / 'lydia' entries (earliest coins are lydian electrum, c. 600 bce), herodotus, histories 1.94 (lydians first introduced gold and silver coinage); lydian electrum coins c. 600 bc, as summarised in standard numismatic references, herodotus, histories 1.94 (lydians first to mint and use gold and silver coins); british museum department of coins and medals, lydian electrum coinage entry (c. 600 bce), lbma, 'lydian electrum coin' (https://www.lbma.org.uk/wonders-of-gold/items/lydian-electrum-coin), which states the earliest electrum coins are lydian, dated to the last quarter of the 7th century bc, library.willamette.edu, numismatic consensus on lydian electrum coinage c. 600 bc, as summarised in the wikipedia article on lydia / ancient coinage and the british museum's coinage collection notes, slll.cass.anu.edu.au, the metropolitan museum of art, department of ancient near eastern art, lydia and phrygia (october 2004), https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/lydia-and-phrygia . the paragraph about lydian gold credits lydia as the first state to coin money., the metropolitan museum of art, ‘sardis’ (https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/essays/sardis); american numismatic association, ‘lydia & the first coins’ (https://www.money.org/money-museum/virtual-exhibits-hom-case1/)., wikipedia, 'coin' and 'lydia' articles (lydian electrum staters, c. 600 bce, attributed to king alyattes/croesus era); british museum numismatic collection notes on lydian electrum coins. cited from knowledge; not fetched in this run., wikipedia, 'coin' article, section 'lydian and ionian electrum coins (c. 600 bc)': the earliest coins are mostly associated with anatolia and the kingdom of lydia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/coin); retrieved via https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&explaintext=1&titles=coin, wikipedia, 'coinage of lydia' / 'history of coins' (general numismatic consensus: first coins minted in lydia, c. 600 bce, electrum staters). cross-check: british museum collection notes on lydian electrum coinage., www.britannica.com, www.britishmuseum.org, www.iranicaonline.org, www.metmuseum.org, www.money.org, www.worldhistory.org
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