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Beginning around 600 B.C., societies started using precious metals as currency.

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Around 600 BCE (late 7th–6th century BCE) the first minted metal coins appear in Lydia (western Anatolia) and nearby Greek city-states, using electrum, gold, and silver as standardized currency.