First Coins
600 BCE
The first coins known were struck in Lydia, in what is now western Turkey.
- Type
- Event
- Date
- 600 BCE
- Place
- Lydia
Who was alive during First Coins
- Jeremiah c. 650–c. 570 BCE, prophet
- Nebuchadnezzar II c. 642–562 BCE, king
- Sappho c. 630–c. 570 BCE, poet
- Zoroaster (By Zoroastrian tradition) c. 628–c. 551 BCE, prophet
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–c. 546 BCE, philosopher
- Aesop c. 620–c. 564 BCE, fabulist
- Cyrus the Great c. 600–530 BCE, king