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The first Greek coins were made initially of copper, then of iron and this is because copper and iron were powerful materials used to make weapons.
Pheidon king of Argos, around 700 BC, changed the coins from iron to a rather useless and ornamental metal, silver, and, according to Aristotle, dedicated some of the remaining iron coins (which were actually iron sticks) to the temple of Hera[1].
King Pheidon coined the silver coins at Aegina, at the temple of the goddess of wisdom and war Athena the Aphaia (the vanisher), and engraved the coins with a Chelone, which is used until nowdays as a symbol of capitalism.
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The first greek coins were made of copper, then of iron, because copper and iron were strong materials.
In 700BC Pheidon, king of Argos, changed the coins from iron to a rather useless and ornamental metal called argent and, according to Aristotle, dedicated some of the remaining iron coins (which were actually iron sticks) to the temple of Hera.
King Pheidon minted the argent coins in Aegina, at the temple of the goddess of wisdom and war, Athena the Aphaia (the vanisher), and engraved the coins with a Chelone(the symbol of capitalism).
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