One of the interesting things I learned from RegEx searching all books published prior to 1918 was that the earliest minted coins were minted in Lydia. Another

One of the interesting things I learned from RegEx searching all books published prior to 1918 was that the earliest minted coins were minted in Lydia. Another interesting finding was the story of flexible glass. Though almost certainly a fabrication, it is nonetheless instructive of the nature of value (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass).