Can anyone dig up the HoME reference for the Numenorean coins? I'm sure I read about the mirian and canath coins of Gondor there somewhere.
I'd imagine that the Numenoreans (or elves maybe?) introduced coinage to Middle Earth and that the other peoples derived their systems from this basis. For example, in Britain in pre-Roman times coins were minted which featured a horse-and-rider design which were local 'copies' of Macedonian coins from the time of Alexander the Great!
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