making Croesus' system the world's first two-metal monetary system and the earliest gold standard. The gold and silver Croeseids had the same design. On one side were the front parts of a lion and ...

and on it are a lion and a bull facing each other as if in combat, and about to crash together head-on. These coins were minted under Croesus around 550 BC but, in a very real sense, they are ...

When the Lydians returned to their king, Croesus, he invited Alcmaeon to his capital at Sardis to reward him; inviting him to take as much gold as he could carry from his treasury. The canny ...