It was the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, who told us the story about the invention of coins in Lydia (in what is modern-day Turkey).But Herodotus was clearly so surprised and impressed with this new idea that he didn't talk about a lot of the questions we might ask ourselves about this new invention.

For one thing, I don't remember him telling us what the purchasing power of the "Lydian lion:" coins might have been.

1.Were they very valuable (let's say like a $100 or $1,000 bill might be today?Or were they low-value like a loonie or toonie?

2.Did the Lydians have more than one kind of coin?

[as always, we are interested in facts that we can verify]

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