Hermodike II

[5]Another example of local pride is the dispute about coinage, whether the 1st one to strike it was Pheidon of Argos, or Demodike of Kyme (who was wife of Midas the Phrygian and daughter of King Agammemnon of Kyme), or Erichthonios and Lycos of Athens, or the Lydians (as Xenophanes says) or the Naxians (as Anglosthenes thought)The 8th-century BC King Midas likely Gyges of Lydia pre-dates coinage.

Yet, although the Lydian Lion was minted by Alyattes for use as a "nobleman's tax-token",[8] "it took some time before ancient coins were used for everyday commerce and trade.

Both sources cite Kyme in Aeolis, on the west coast of Asia minor, as the princess's home and Pollux specifically identifies her father as being king there.

In contrast to works of art and inscriptions, Greek and Roman coins are wholly official in the information they impart, for the simple reason (not sufficiently often realized) that they were almost always produced under state prerogative.

[14]Alyattes created coinage - to use a token currency, where the value is guaranteed by the state and not by the value of the metal used in the coins[15] - and the role of Hermodike II was to communicate that technology and philosophy into Greek society as per D. Macpherson's observation, From Aeolic Cyme a king Agamemnon married his daughter Hermodice to a Midas ruler of Phrygia.

[16]Hermodike II was the royal link between Lydia and Aeolia – the conduit of knowledge and the person who influenced the Greeks into adopting the invention of coins.