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Croesus stater: The 2,500-year-old coin that introduced the gold standard
In the middle of the sixth century B.C., King Croesus of Lydia minted the world's first gold coin. Known as a stater or ...
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Episode Transcript – Episode 25 - Gold Coin of Croesus
Before the first Lydian coins, payments were made mostly in precious metal - effectively just lumps of gold and silver. It didn't really matter what shape the metal was, just how much it weighed ...
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Harvard-Cornell Team Uncovers Market Place In Ancient Sardis City
The archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small ...
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Government to provide $150M budget loan to Lydian Armenia company to operate Amulsar gold mine
Armenia on February 22 signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding for $250 million... Minister: 'Lydian Armenia' may start exploitation of gold mine on Mountain Amulsar Lydian Armenia may start ...
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Harvard-Cornell Team Uncovers Market Place In Ancient Sardis City
The archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small ...
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Croesus stater: The 2,500-year-old coin that introduced the gold standard
Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits ...