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What was the first coin made?

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According to multiple sources, the first gold and silver coins were made in the Kingdom of Lydia, which was in western Anatolia, today's Turkey. They were hammered from electrum, a naturally occurring metal of gold and silver. They were made at about 800 BC, during the first millennium BC.

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