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Oldest Coin in the World

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 25, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 17.

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Oldest Coin in the World

WHAT is regarded as the oldest coin in the world was recently discovered by a German archeologist, during his explorations in North Syria. It is a coin of pure silver, bearing a perfect Aramean inscription of Panammu Bar-Rekub, king of Schamol, who reigned eight hundred years before Christ. Up to the present, Lydians have always been regarded as the inventors of money, but this new find shows that the Semitic Arameans, who lived two centuries before the Lydians, are the oldest known coiners of money.—Selected.