Numismatics is not just studied of coins, it also includes the study of medals, paper money, and such as banknotes. Which provide basic ideas of how ancient and present social organization, economy, trade behavior, and mythology work.
Before the invention of coins, it already exists the commercial service, which they use the barter system for trading with each other. They exchange materials with one another for basic sources they need in daily life, this is not an equal trade. The most popular material will become the commodity currency for the society in ancient society. For example, the barley was popular use in the Mesopotamia for trade, and most commodity money used in ancient time is food. However after they found metal is more durable and precious they replace the popular items to metals, but they need their society to be steady. The first ancient group, who use the metals to determine the value of the material is Sumerian. According to the Sumerian Mythology, Sumerian think the gold represents the sun god and the silver represents the moon god. Originally in the beginning, the gold used the hand scale to determine the amount to exchange, to chop the gold in to pieces, and people who kept the metals were usually kept by the priest. The priest handles the conflict between the …show more content…
The metal disks represent the coinage and each coin with the seal of the king. This present of coins was also happening in the Greek cities shores of the Aegean Sea. This spread rapidly to in worldwide, and coin loses their sacred characteristic. For examples like Greeks, Romans, the Middle Age, and Renaissances also adopted this system to their society. However, in the ancient time period, the metals are reused. After one ruler had died, ended time period, the collector, usually is noble and priest. They collect back the coins and re-manufacture it for next