Why Are Coins Round?
Apr 08, 2022
2 minutes
By Richard Giedroyc
■ Coins have been relatively round for most of their existence. Was there a specific reason primitive coinage was chosen round?
The first coins in the Western tradition were issued about 650 B.C. in Lydia in Asia Minor. These coins were made from lumps of electrum, a
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