The history of money Aitana Llarena and Alejandra Fernandez By aitanallarena 2500 BCE Ancient Egyptians were making metal 1971 BCE The threepenny was only scrapped 1100 BCE China they made a system of using miniature replicas of the objects 650 BCE Lydia The first coins were made 1600 Europeans were using more and more metal coins 1685 Canadian began to use paper money 1700 Spanish eight real coin was often split up into bits to pay for things 2017 credit cards