تطور النميات و أوزانها عند العرب قبل الإسلام

Abstract EN

The study of monetary coins is historically an important civilized aspect that depicts an important part of the life of nations and peoples.

It is the mirror of the state of economic development and prosperity, or the state of economic decline of these nations.

Therefore, we have tried in this research to learn about the history of minting, and how it appeared in humans and then the stages of its development in ancient times, up to minting of currency in the pre-Islamic Arab kingdoms in the region of the Arabian Peninsula.

Mankind has long lived in its ancient history without dealing in coins.

As the need for coins as an intermediate commodity did not exist.

With the first steps of man towards stability and his discovery of agriculture and domestication of animals and the beginnings of literal human specialization in agricultural societies, the urgent need for barter, i.

e.

the exchange of a commodity for a commodity.

Likewise, the practical specialties and the muscular and skillful effort in the same place.

The human need to search for obtaining goods and other materials was needed from places near or far.

However, the need for intermediate goods was the basis for the value of exchanged goods, and most of the needs available in ancient societies depended on an intermediate commodity on the basis of which the exchange of different goods between other cities.