TLDR: Just posted this .stl for 3d printing to Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5897427. The first coin I posted was of the Lydian Stater, for that see https://krypted.com/the-history-of-computing/lydian-stater-coin-design-for-3d-printing-and-why/. To continue our journey of the history of coins and why these matter: The Lydian Lion coin was minted initially be the father of Croessius and then by Crosseus ihimself in the early years of the 500s BCE. Cyrus the Great introducd the concept of coinage in the Persian empire with the daric, after he defeated Coesus of Lydia some time after 546 BCE. By the end of the 500s and early 400s, two rulers later, Darius I defined that a gold coin would…
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Lydian Stater Coin Design For 3D Printing (and why)
tldr: Download it from thingiverse here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5886433 Lydia And The Stater Lydia was an empire that began in 1200 BC and was conquered by the Persians around 546 BC. It covered the modern Western Anatolia, Salihli, Manisa, and Turkey before the Persians took it. One of their most important contributions to the modern world was the first state sponsored coinage, in 700BC. Many of the coins were electrum, which is a mix of gold and silver. And here’s the most important part. The standard weight was guaranteed by an official stamp. The Lydian king Croesus then added the concept of bimetallic coinage. Or having one coin made of gold and…