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Virtually everywhere you look around the ancient world, precious metals were used as the dominant form of money. By the time great ancient cultures in Greece, Persia, and Rome had emerged, gold and silver had become the preferred metals for use as currency, especially as coins.

There is no definitive consensus among historians and academics about where coins were first invented, although the Kingdom of Lydia (western Turkey) and the Chinese both have strong claims as the first to use true coins as money.

In most cases, ancient coins were made of gold and silver, although other valuable metals like bronze and electrum (a natural alloy of gold and silver) were also used. Over time, the innovation spread as kings and their states saw the benefit of using and issuing gold and silver as circulating currency. It's no coincidence that a blossoming of trade between different empires and cultures took place at this time when coins first began to appear.

Gainesville Coins carries a great array of gold coins as well as silver coins from various locations in the ancient world, from Greece to Rome to the Holy Land, and more! All of them have been certified as authentic and graded by NGC in order to ensure that our customers are getting a real ancient coin that they can trust is real.