The Original Merchants that Invented Coinage…. The Lydians… Smurf Hats… (Phrygian Cap)
Their Script and Language were the origins of Nordic Germanic Runes
Also the Richest King of Ancient Times King Croesus of the land where the Lengend of the Ring of Gyges hails… This is the Ring of Power J.R.R. Tolkien patterned his One Ring of Invisibility from..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydians