{"id":18671,"date":"2021-08-19T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:30:22","slug":"could-this-site-in-central-china-have-produced-the-worlds-oldest-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18671","title":{"rendered":"Could this site in central China have produced the world\u2019s oldest coins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA team of archaeologists has discovered a mint in central China that they say may have been the place where the world\u2019s first coins were produced.Excavations suggest that the mint\u2019s operations began sometime between 640 and 550BC \u2013 up to a century before the first known coins were produced by the kingdom of Lydia in modern-day western Turkey.Although the wooden structures that are thought to have occupied the site are long gone, researchers discovered more than 3,000 pits where workers dumped\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3145688\/could-site-central-china-have-produced-worlds-oldest-coins?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA team of archaeologists has discovered a mint in central China that they say may have been the place where the world\u2019s first coins&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}