Visual Timeline: Silver

To navigate the timeline, click and drag it with your mouse, or click on the timeline overview on the bottom.

700 BCE 600 BCE 500 BCE 400 BCE 300 BCE 200 BCE 100 BCE 0 CE 100 CE 200 CE 300 CE 400 CE 500 CE 600 CE 700 CE 800 CE 900 CE 1000 CE 1100 CE  
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
700 BCE 500 BCE 300 BCE 100 BCE 100 CE 300 CE 500 CE 700 CE 900 CE