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The Croesus Stater, produced in Lydia (modern-day Turkey) in the middle of the sixth century BCE, was the world's first minted gold coin. It featured as Episode 25 of the BBC's landmark series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, described the historical and economic importance of the coin.