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635 BCE - 585 BCE: Reign of Alyattes of Lydia. Minting of first coins made from electrum.
550 BCE: The silver drachma of Delos depicts a lyre - symbolic of Apollo - on its reverse side.
211 BCE: A new system of Roman coinage is introduced which includes the silver denarius.
157 BCE: There is a boom in the production of Roman silver coinage, in part thanks to the acquisition of silver mines in Macedonia.
84 BCE: Sulla mints new silver and gold coins to pay his army.
1101 CE: The unbyong (aka hwalgu) silver vases are first made and used as currency in Korea.