Note 745 — Chapter V · Lydia

The Γυγάδας χρυσός of Poll. III. 87 and VII. 98 was not, pace Radet, Lydie, p. 162; Rev. d. Univ. du Midi, 1895, p. 119, necessarily or even probably coined, but the history of Croesus shows that a king who unquestionably coined might yet be famous for his uncoined gold. Archilochus calls Gyges “the golden.”