Coins Around The World

First coins
Homer used the ox as the base "currency" of goods, for example he valued the bronze armour of Diomedes worth nine oxen, while the golden armour of Glaucus, worth one hundred oxen. As a measure of gold he used the talent, Achilles for example gives half-talent of gold to Antilochus as a prize .
Herodotus states (I, 94) that the Lydians 'were the first to coin in gold and silver'. Aristotle states that the first coins were struck by Demodike of Kyme, of Ancient Greece, who had married Midas, king of Pessinus, and had by him a son named Agamemnon