Gold coin of Croesus
c. 550 BC · Resource
A Lydian gold croeseid minted at Sardis under King Croesus, among the first true gold coins of standardised purity. It marks the birth of the world's first bimetallic coinage system.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 550 BCE
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (586 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)