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Achaemenid Coinage
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The predecessors
the Achaemenids did not invent coinage, but inherited it from the Lydians after Cyrus conquered Lydia and Sardis in the 540s BC
early on, the Persians continued to use and mint the old Lydian lion-and-bull types at Sardis before introducing their own characteristic types under Darius I
it is likely that Achaemenid royal coinage begins under Darius I, towards the end of the 6th century BC, with the introduction of darics and sigloi
Where it started
the key mint for Achaemenid coinage was Sardis, the old Lydian capital
Sardis had already been the mint of the Lydian kings, and the Persians deliberately kept it in operation
therefore Persian coinage began not in the imperial heartlands, but the western satrapies, where coinage was already culturally and economically embedded
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