There's so many curious stories about money. How about the story with the philosopher Diogenes and from the coin counterfeiters in the ancient city Dyme.
And a curious thing is, that there's no silver in our so called silver coins.

Have you ever asked yourself how much money costs? How much would Jesus have in his savings book if his parents opened an account for him in the bank of Bethlehem?

In our glossary, Dave Barry gives (un)suitable answers to finance questions.

Diogenes

Diogenes of Sinope (ca. 412-323 BC) is today's personification of simple living. He housed in a can and owned only a cup to drink from. Even this he threw away when he saw a boy use his hand to scoop water with. Of all people, this modest and simple man was supposed to be a counterfeiter, if we are to believe his namesake Diogenes Laertios, who lived 100 years later.

In his work vitae philosophorum (The Resume of Philosophers) he reports that the father of Diogenes of Sinope was a moneychanger and lender. He would have had his son help him make debased coins.

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The Dyme Marble Wanted Poster

Apparently in the 3rd or 2nd century BC in the port city of Dyme on the Peleponnesian peninsula, a goldsmith and two others were to have stolen holy wares from a temple in order to make copper coins out of it. This accusation of forgery was found inscribed on a sheet of marble that could have been displayed in a marketplace. Had they been found and tried, they would have been executed.