Greek Money
Money in form of coins is as strange as sounds one of the main reasons for the scientific revolution that started in the Ionian Greek islands.
It abstracted the value of commodities or objects in exchange and helped to initiate a new mode of abstract thinking.
For a period of 1000 years and considering the small cities states and the colonies we can assume that there exists a rich set of different coins.
The drachma was a currency that also the new Greek State adopted and that is now replaced by the EURO.This ends the history of the drachma which lasted for more than 1 millennium.Money was divided in :1 Talent = 60 minae = 6000 drachmae = 36000 oboloi.Many Greek coins seems not to have any number showing their value like today coins. The variety is very large and many coins show animals, goats, eagles, horses, owls, the Pegasus or strange creatures like the man-headed bull.