On the back of the coin, two squares were hammered into the gold staters and one into the silver ones. Soon after Croesus invented modern coinage, the idea was adopted throughout the ancient world.

The hoard was purchased by the National Museum of Antiquities of the ... as well as 44 gold alloy coins, called staters, that were minted in Britain. The staters included the name of the Celtic ...

Known as a stater or Croeseid, the coin represents a key turning point in the history of financial systems: the invention of the gold standard. But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum ...