The pot-hoard from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos Options

[peterrose4743]

Deciding which are the earliest coins, let alone when they were minted, is a difficult business. Fortunately, excavations carried out by The British Museum at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos in 1904-5 provided the breakthrough in the form of a number coins sealed in the foundation deposit of the Archaic temple. From the date of this early temple (around 600 BC) we know for certain that the coins were in use at this point in time.

Among the coins found in this deposit was the earliest known pot-hoard: a group of coins sealed and buried together in a pot. Such a deposit is of immense benefit to scholars in providing evidence for the circulation of different types of coin at the same period in time. The evidence of hoards allows us to work out the relative chronologies (timescales) of different types of coins, produced by the different authorities in a region. The pot-hoard from the Temple of Artemis provides such evidence from the very dawn of coinage.

According to the terms of the excavation permit granted by the Turkish government, the pot came to the British Museum, while the original coins are kept in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul. The coins on display in the Museum are electrotype copies.

[josie]

During 600 BC they are already putting coins in the foundation of the temple artemis Included in three virgin goddesses.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_were_the_thr...irgin_goddesses.

There might be other coins in the foundation of romam temple in Britannia.
Or barn or place of worship church and monasteries during the middle ages.

Or foundation of Abbey and cathedral.

And some coin made and minted just for the foundation of a building like the 1933 penny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_th...1%E2%80%931970)

Just a comment.