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.
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Around 550 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (490 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE)
- Athenian democracy founded (508 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire founded (550 BCE)
- Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)
- Buddha's enlightenment (528 BCE)