Known as a stater or Croeseid, the coin represents a key turning point in the history of financial systems: the invention of ...

Most people can only dream about being lucky enough to encounter some buried treasure in the wild. However, some hikers in ...

His kingdom, Lydia, was among the new powers that emerged ... that it's easy to forget that coins arrived quite late in the history of the world. For over two thousand years, states ran complex ...

Gold is one of the oldest forms of money; gold coins were first used in the Kingdom of Lydia (now part of Turkey) in about 550 B.C. Gold has also long been used as a store of value as well as an ...