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To Watch Tonight on Tv: "the Fabulous History of Money" on Arte, From the First Lydian Play to the Bitcoin

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The director Frédéric Wilner recounts, in four educational episodes, two thousand seven hundred years of the history of money.

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The director Frédéric Wilner recounts, in four educational episodes, two thousand seven hundred years of the history of money.

·Paris, France
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Picture taken from the documentary "La Fabulause Histoire de l'argent", by Frédéric Wilner, showing the first currency in the Mediterranean, dating from the 7th century B.C. ILADE PRODUCTIONS If "silver is the nerve of war" – "Nervos belli, infinitam pecuniam", writes Cicero in 51 B.C.E. – the reciprocal is just as right, since the appearance of the first play, struck in Lydia (present-day Turkey) in the middle of the 7th century B.C.E. It is on…

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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Saturday, November 29, 2025.
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