Many people interested in history searched for the first person to use coins in history
In today's article, we will highlight and reveal the first used coins in history
Or the first to mint money and the name of the first coin in history and how it was used and in which country.
The first to mint money in history:
The credit for minting the first coins in the world goes back to the great Iraqi people, and it was called at the time after the shekel or shekel
It means weight in the Akkadian language, an ancient Iraqi language, and an ancient Semitic language, which appeared in Mesopotamia, Iraq today.
Since 3000 BC, one of the laws of Mesopotamia at that time stipulated the payment of fines in the currency of the shekel or the shekel.
As compensation for violating the laws and customs in that historical era.
In the beginning, we have to know that the word shekel or shekel was referring to the weight that depended on the barley
In that historical era, specifically, it was equivalent to 180 shekels or shekels of grain (11 grams or 0.35 ounces).
In confirmation of the above, the motto of the first coin known in history was barley or barley flower
Because barley was the most expensive in Mesopotamia and was an important basic food commodity.
The shekel or the shekel was common to the Western Semitic peoples (the Moabites, the Edomites, and the Phoenicians) and all of them used the shekel, and the Punic currency was also based on the shekel, and this is derived from the heritage of the Iraqi ancestors in the original as we explained.
The origin of the Jewish shekel:
The Hebrew word shekel is based on the verbal root for "weighs" (ul), of single origin, and is a Sumerian equivalent unit of weight.
The word was used for the first time in the year 2150 BC during the reign of the Akkadian Empire under the rule of Naram-Sin.
And then in the year 1700 BC in the Code of Hammurabi. The root (ul) is found in the Hebrew words for "to weigh"
It is related to the root (QTL) in Aramaic, and to the root (that) in Arabic, as in the Arabic word for "heavy".
The famous wall writing in the Bible from Daniel includes a cryptic use of the word in the Aramaic language
The word "Shekel" and its translation into English came from the Hebrew Bible.
It was first used in Genesis.
Here we want to confirm that Mesopotamia used that coin with the same name before 3000 BC, that is, before the Jews themselves by about 850 years, and with more scrutiny, we will find that the Jews of that period were greatly influenced by the period they lived in Babylon Iraq and here we are exposed to the Babylonian captivity or the Babylonian exile Namely, the idea of the Babylonian captivity of the Jews remained an area of research and contemplation by Jewish researchers and others, as the diaspora doctrine formed the core of the Jewish personality through its ages. The first Jewish diaspora, it began after the division of the united kingdom led by Solomon into two kingdoms, the northern one with its capital, Samaria, and the southern one with its capital, Jerusalem.
Looking more closely at the currency of the Jewish shekel, we will find that it contains the ears of barley and the lotus flower, which Mesopotamia was famous for.
Or Mesopotamia, a historical geographical area located in southwest Asia and is one of the first centers of civilization in the world
It is currently the state of Iraq, which had great merit in the history of the ancient world and its most famous civilizations.
The civilization of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, and Chaldeans, originated mainly from Iraq
Like their ownership of the first coin in history, the Iraqi shekel currency, not the Jewish one.
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