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Show Anclrnt Or.-k Celua. To tho LyClans the tnuotatlon of coining gold aud slh er Is attributed, and the year eOJ II C is fixed as tbo era of tho Invention. Borne 800 years alter this, it msy be noted, Cnrsus was Ling of Lydla. Tho coins of that period wero not cry elegnnt Among the Oreeks banking was c irrlcd on to a conridcrable extent Homer eicaks of brass money among them In 1191 II a, but It was weights, not coins. Hut tho nrt of coining coin-ing was soon acquired by the Urecks Ihe earliest colas they made wero somewhat some-what crude. The original method of making n coin was by placing a kit en w eight of metal, after it had boei softened, over a silo upon which a national symbol or e mblem was cngratod, and then pounding It with a hummer on tbo die until n good Impression was obtained. They were rudo an I battered nnd showed h dlo 1m-I 1m-I reaaion ou one sldo only, tho other bearing bear-ing tho roirgli marks of the hammer Tho earliest llrcck coins woro of slhcr, whereas those of Lydla vcre of gold or electron gold and sihor. They wero of a sacred character, nnd tho ol 1 Inscriptions In-scriptions wero succeeded by representations representa-tions of the deltloa, Itrooklyn Lagle. |
