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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3378505, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">See &quot;<b>The Electrum Coinage of Samos in the Light of a Recent Hoard&quot; by Koray Konuk. </b></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.achemenet.com/pdf/in-press/Samos-Konuk.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.achemenet.com/pdf/in-press/Samos-Konuk.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.achemenet.com/pdf/in-press/Samos-Konuk.pdf</a></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Samos began striking coins in electrum about the same time as the other Ionian cities, c. 600 BCE. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">My interest in the archaic times involves Pythagoras. According to Diogenes Laertius, Pythagoras spent many years abroad, including time in Egypt. When he returned home to Samos, he on some ground disapproved of the tyrant Polycrates. So, Pythagoras settled in Croton.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000000"><font size="4">In L. Sprague DeCamp&#039;s <i>The Ancient Engineers</i>, Polycrates ordered the building of a tunnel to connect the mainland with the harbor. The two teams began at opposite ends and met nearly in the middle and very close to the mark.</font></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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