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The agora was a marketplace where goods were sold, and people came to catch up on the latest news or
to hear a talking. Farmers, stone carvers, jewellers and metal workers all sold their goods at the agora. They could be carried there by donkeys, and meat and fish were placed on slabs of marble to keep them cool.
Goods were usually paid for with coins. Each made their own coins, stamped with symbols from the city. Money changers, known as , had tables at the agora where they exchanged one city’s coins for another.
Around the agora there were open-fronted market buildings called stoas. This is where the more expensive goods were sold, such as beautiful jewellery, gold ornaments, exotic cloth and foreign spices.
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