Beginning with the Hittites in the Bronze Age and ending with the Lydians in the Classical period, the Anatolian peoples traded, fought, and engaged in diplomacy with each other and other notable ...

He did so by giving all the assistance in his power to a group of Lydians seeking passage to the Oracle at Delphi. When the Lydians returned to their king, Croesus, he invited Alcmaeon to his ...

Their value derives from the state enforcing their use and guaranteeing them, just as it was for the Lydians. And even Trump's meme coin is not his only venture into coins.