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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2007176, member: 19463&quot;]While gold was &#039;sacrosanct&#039; in the Roman world, the Byzantines got over it and used electrum as did the Celts and some eastern groups.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking especially about the Kiderites who have a particularly debased gold coin common in the market at the moment (hoard?).&nbsp; Gold has an interesting characteristic of lending a smoothness to alloys even when the percentage is low.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=693761" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=693761" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=693761</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Part of me has wanted one of these but I always talk myself out of them.&nbsp; There are dealers selling them as showing a stylized figure while others swear the type is a knife.&nbsp; I&#039;d probably be more likely to own one if I were really convinced which side was up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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