Create a 60-second vertical (9:16) animated explainer video for a banking education channel, "Malla Banking Academy", series "Banking Foundations, Episode 4: The Invention of Coins". Style: clean, modern, warm gold and deep navy palette, simple flat illustrations, smooth transitions, calm confident narrator, light instrumental music. Keep on-screen text short and different from the narration.
Scene 1 (0-6s): Close-up of a modern coin spinning and stopping; zoom into its stamp. Text: "THE STAMP > THE METAL". Narration: "You've touched a coin today. But do you know why the stamp matters more than the metal?"
Scene 2 (6-13s): Ancient market; trader weighs rough metal lumps on a balance scale and tests one on a dark stone; one lump has a hidden dull core with a "FAKE?" icon. Text: "Weigh. Test. Repeat." Narration: "Before coins, every trade meant weighing metal and testing it, because anyone could mix in cheaper metal."
Scene 3 (13-25s): Map zooms to western Turkey, pin on "Lydia"; a pale-gold oval lump is struck with a hammer and die, and a lion's head stamp appears. Text: "Lydia · ~600 BCE". Narration: "Around 600 BCE, in Lydia, in what is now western Turkey, people made the first known coins from electrum, a natural mix of gold and silver, and stamped them with a lion's head."
Scene 4 (25-35s): The lion stamp glows; checkmarks for "Weight" and "Purity"; the scale fades out; a hand quickly counts coins. Text: "A stamp = a guarantee". Narration: "That stamp was a promise. The issuer guaranteed the weight and the purity, so nobody needed to weigh the coin again. You just counted."
Scene 5 (35-43s): Three-panel split: gold and silver coins (Lydia), a rectangular punch-marked silver coin (India), spade-shaped bronze money (China). Text: "Gold · Silver · Bronze". Narration: "Later, King Croesus is credited with separate pure gold and silver coins, while India and China built their own metal money."
Scene 6 (43-52s): Coin dissolves into glowing digits flowing into a phone showing a payment confirmation; the lion stamp morphs into a bank icon. Text: "Trust the issuer". Narration: "Today most money isn't metal at all. It's numbers in a bank. But the idea is the same: we trust the issuer, not the object."
Scene 7 (52-60s): A coin flips and lands as a folded paper note; end card "Banking Foundations · Ep 4" with the Malla Banking Academy logo. Text: "Next: Paper Money →". Narration: "Next episode: how paper took over from metal. The full story of coins is in the long video linked on this Short."
