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025 Gold Coin of Croesus 19 Feb 2010

Fri, 19 Feb 10

One of the world’s earliest coins, minted¹ in ancient Turkey about 2,500 years ago. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at how a powerful new state found a dramatic way to help run its increasingly complex economy and trading networks. How did money, in the form of coins, first come about? And why do we still talk of the wealth of Croesus, a king of Lydia, in what is now western Turkey?

1 minted   

崭新的；新制作的；刚完成的

参考例句：

• a newly minted expression 刚出现的词语
• The silver which was mined there was minted into coins. 在那里开采的银子被用来铸成钱币。