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A Lydian: The Weight of Gold
Paperback
Series: The Logic of Collapse, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9786501930053
Publisher: Cbl - Camara Brasileira Do Livro
Published: Feb 4 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Weight of Gold is a historical novel about how money becomes power-and how that power moves through ordinary lives.
Set in ancient Lydia, the birthplace of coinage, the story follows Ardys, a skilled assayer whose ability to weigh metal draws him from a riverbank into the heart of the first monetary empire. As gold becomes purer and trust accelerates, Ardys rises within a system that rewards precision, speed, and reliability. Trade expands, armies are paid, and prosperity appears secured.
But money does more than enable growth. As the monetary base expands and circulation speeds up, time itself becomes scarce. Small delays carry consequences. Precision is pushed past its limits. Decisions meant to preserve order quietly shift risk outward-to soldiers, merchants, and families who live by schedules they do not control.
When war comes, there is no sudden collapse. Instead, the system continues to function-efficiently, impersonally-until it replaces itself. Lists change. Seals change. The work remains. Ardys loses position, home, and centrality, but not competence. Reduced to weighing silver in a small town, he confronts what endures when money, empire, and identity are stripped away.
Written in a restrained, spare style, The Weight of Gold is not a tale of heroes or battles. It is a novel about infrastructure, trust, inflation, and the human cost of systems that work too well. It will appeal to readers of historical fiction, economic history, and anyone interested in how prosperity, power, and collapse are lived-one person at a time.
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