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Alexander the Great propagated the use of coinage in his conquered realms, and instituted the practice of using realistic designs on the coins instead of idealistic representations. These realistic portraits stand out as some of the only true renderings of the ancient leaders of yesterday. Indeed, coins from this point forward can often be used as an historical primer, as they typically honored the political leaders of any given time. Following the Greeks, the Persians and the Romans began minting gold, silver, and bronze coins.
Perhaps the most famous coin collector, Francesco Petrarca, nicknamed the father of the Renaissance, was the first coin enthusiast to bring attention to coin collecting. Following him, the hobby became popular with popes and nobility deeming coin collecting “The Hobby of Kings.”
In the United States, coins were officially minted beginning in 1792, with the passage of the Coinage Act. This act legalized the United States dollar as the official unit of monetary exchange throughout the states, a standard which still stands today. The Philadelphia Mint was the first to manufacture US coins, starting in 1792 when it coined the US Silver Dollar.
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