Electrum was regarded a seperate metal to gold and silver. Coinage likely is invented in Lydia and Ionia around 670 BC.
Modern archaeologists prefer 600 BC but this is thought unlikely by numismatic electrum specialists.
Invention of coinage is traditionally dated to 700 BC, and attributed by Herodotus to the Lydians. 19 of these early electrum coins were found inside a common pottery vessel dating to 650-625 BC. In 1903 Hobart at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus excavated a find of 93 electrum coins known as the Artemission find. (Done by User MinstrelOfC - note that I am not logged in due to technical issues)Ħ6.82.9.53 22:03, 11 July 2005 (UTC) Reply
ELECTRUM MEANING PDF
PS: I found an interesting article that could be useful to someone making a full "Electrum Coinage" page - Google HTML-ized version of a PDF entitled: "The Electrum Coinage of Samos in the Light of a Recent Hoard" It might be an idea to split the article into "Electrum" and "Electrum Coinage", maybe add a note at the top that this article deals only with naturally occuring Electrum. I've noticed that the entire "History" section deals only with Electrum as it was used in coinage. Could whoever put it there to begin with, or someone else, look up the actual fact and put it in, preferably with a citation? But I don't know what the fact is, so I'm just going to delete the entire comparison to wheat for now, because as it stands it's utter bosh. I'm guessing that the actual fact is something completely different, such as: "a stater weighed the same as 168 grains of wheat," or "a stater was worth about 168 pounds of wheat," or whatever. Soldiers might have lived on less food back then but I doubt that they survived on a few crumbs a month, nor that those few crumbs cost a half-ounce of precious metal. 168 grains of wheat must be about enough to make a few crumbs of bread.
Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.0.178 ( talk) 07:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC) Reply Absurd figures This isn't even a debate, he specifically wrote it as fiction. Sitchin wrote it as a "what if" book, where he took his theories and wrote them out as a fictional novel. "Lost book?" I'm guessing this refers to the "Lost Book of Enki," which is a work of fiction by Zecharia Sitchin.
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