WiM021 - The Frisby Series | Episode 2 | Mythology, Gold, and Government
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Most Famous Myth About Gold
The most famous myth about gold is midas, king midas. The god of er revelling in parties and wine was passing through a king midas's territory. He touched his flowers and they turned to gold but then gradually everything he he touched his daughter, and she nto gold. And so what he thought was a blessing was, in fact, a curse. A croesus and the father of croesus were the first people to mint coins. They used alluvial gold that had been put there from midas getting rid of his curse.
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