Revue numismatique · 2001 · 22 citations · 0 references
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Summary. — The birth of the hammered coinage must be re-examined. Coinage is only one stage in the history of methods of exchange and currency in Archaic Greece. The reasons for this innovation were mainly economic, in the context of trade in precious metals between the Mediterranean and Near East.