# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alyattes-of-lydia
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url: "https://fame.am/person/alyattes-of-lydia"
name: "Alyattes of Lydia"
slug: "alyattes-of-lydia"
description: "The first ruler to mint coins — electrum slugs stamped with a lion's head around 600 BC — turning metal into portable trust and, by accident, inventing money as we know it."
tagline: "King of Lydia"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "-640"
deathDate: "-560"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alyattes became the fourth king of Lydia's Mermnad dynasty around 618 BC, inheriting a kingdom in western Anatolia from his father Sadyattes. Somewhere in his 57-year reign he ordered the striking of the world's first standardized coins from electrum, a gold-silver alloy, embedding a guarantee of weight and purity in each piece. The innovation replaced barter and raw metal with something fungible and recognized — a leap that his son Croesus would refine by minting pure gold. When Alyattes died around 561 BC, he left Croesus not just a throne but the machinery of an economy.