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Although the phase "As rich as ..." can be ended with any rich person's name or title (king, Bill Gates, a bank robber) the phrase was originally tied to Croesus a king of Lydia in Anatolia, now Turkey (As rich as Croesus) He was the richest man in the ancient world, making money from his gold mines.

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