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Aksumite
Coins used by African nations before colonialism and post-independence
The Aksumite of Northern Ethiopian are the early tribes of Africa to introduce coins in the 2nd to the 9th century as a means of trading. These coins were made of gold, a little bronze and a minute quantity of silver. The Aksumite kings initially decreed the coins should bear Greek inscriptions, but, was later amended and Amharic…
