Editing Coin (section)

====Croesus: Pure gold and silver coins====
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| image1            = KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 561-546 BC. AV Stater (16mm, 10.73 g). Heavy series. Sardes mint.jpg
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| caption1          = <small>Gold Croeseid, minted by King [[Croesus]], c. 561–546 BC. (10.7 grams, [[Sardis]] mint)</small>
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| caption2          = <small>Silver Croeseid, minted by King Croesus, c. 560–546 BC (10.7 grams, Sardis mint) </small>
| footer            = The gold and silver Croeseids formed the world's first [[bimetallism|bimetallic monetary system]], c. 550 BC.<ref name="WM49">{{cite book |last1=Metcalf |first1=William E. |title=The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199372188 |pages=49–50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trkUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 |language=en}}</ref>
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The successor of Alyattes, king [[Croesus]] (r. c. 560–546 BC), became associated with great wealth in Greek historiography. He is credited with issuing the ''[[Croeseid]]'', the first true [[gold coin]]s with a standardized purity for general circulation.<ref name="WM49"/> and the world's first [[bimetallism|bimetallic monetary system]] c. 550 BC.<ref name="WM49"/>

Coins spread rapidly in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, leading to the development of [[Ancient Greek coinage]] and [[Achaemenid coinage]], and further to [[Illyrian coinage]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cent|url=http://worldcoincatalog.com/Contents/Invention/invention.htm|access-date=7 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306054054/http://worldcoincatalog.com/Contents/Invention/invention.htm|archive-date=6 March 2015}}</ref>