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Term in the language of currency
May 14th, 2010 by admin
In ancient Hebrew epoch, the measure of currency was expressed by the shekel, which were weighed away rather of counted. In the ancient tombs of Egypt, traces of scales were found engraved on the walls, which signified the prosperity of their owners. The shekels did not have an equal mass and the main article of currency or barter among Egyptians was the lambs. The term Shekel in Hebrew process to press, and become a term in the language of currency.Originally, gold and silver were applied in lumps, nuggets, or bars and in these peculiar sorts they can be weighed out, and because they were weighed out they could be applied as payments for commercialized transactions. On the island of Aegina, the Greeks stamped a turtle on the first silver coins done 700 B.C. The Greeks continued stamping symbols of owls and last images and objects on their coins until Alexander the Good decisive that the coins should have portraits or heads of living public and rulers.