Editing Coin (section)

==== Roman period (290 BC~) ====
{{further|Roman currency|Roman Republican currency|Aureus|Solidus (coin)|Denarius|Antoninianus|Sestertius}}
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| caption_left = '''[[Obverse and reverse|O:]]''' Bearded head of Mars with Corinthian helmet left.
| caption_right = '''[[Obverse and reverse|R:]]''' Horse head right, grain ear behind.
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| footer = The first Roman silver coin, 281 BC. Crawford 13/1
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Coinage followed Greek colonization and influence first around the Mediterranean and soon after to North Africa (including Egypt), Syria, Persia, and the Balkans.<ref name="Howgego1995">{{cite book|last=Howgego|first=C. J.|author-link=Christopher Howgego|title=Ancient history from coins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RvEEynd4ZiQC&pg=PA1|access-date=4 December 2011|year=1995|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-08993-7|pages=1–4|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528083333/http://books.google.com/books?id=RvEEynd4ZiQC&pg=PA1|archive-date=28 May 2013}}</ref> Coins came late to the [[Roman Republic]] compared with the rest of the [[Mediterranean]], especially [[Ancient Greek coinage|Greece and Asia Minor]] where coins were invented in the 7th century BC. The [[currency]] of central [[Italy]] was influenced by its natural resources, with [[bronze]] being abundant (the [[Etruscans]] were famous metal workers in bronze and iron) and [[silver]] ore being scarce. The coinage of the Roman Republic started with a few silver coins apparently devised for trade with Celtic in northern Italy and the Greek colonies in Southern Italy, and heavy [[Casting (metalworking)|cast]] bronze pieces for use in Central Italy. The first [[Roman currency|Roman coins]], which were crude, heavy cast bronzes, were issued c. 289 BC.<ref>W. Sayles, Ancient Coin Collecting III: The Roman World–Politics and Propaganda, Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, 1997</ref>
Amisano, in a general publication, including the Etruscan coinage, attributing it the beginning to about 550 BC in [[Populonia]], a chronology that would leave out the contribution of the Greeks of Magna Graecia and attribute to the Etruscans the burden of introducing the coin in Italy.  In this work, constant reference is made to classical sources, and credit is given to the origin of the Etruscan Lydia, a source supported by Herodotus, and also to the invention of coin in Lydia.<ref name="Giuseppe Amisano 1992 pp. 15-20"/>

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File:PupienusSest.jpg|[[Sestertius]] of [[Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus]], AD 238
File:Flavian dynasty Aurei.png|Set of three Roman [[Aureus|aurei]] depicting the rulers of the [[Flavian dynasty]]. Top to bottom: [[Vespasian]], [[Titus]] and [[Domitian]], AD 69–96
File:MithridatesIParthiaCoinHistoryofIran.jpg|Silver [[Ancient drachma|Drachma]] of Mehrdad ([[Mithridates I of Parthia|Mithridates I]]) of Persian Empire of [[Parthia]], 165 BC
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