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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iepto, post: 6628203, member: 114274&quot;]Found another much more modern source:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The high gold content of the electrum is typical of the initial period of their circulation ca. 570/560-500 BC only; secondly, it was only within this early period the coins were struck in natural, alluvial white gold. [...] These data were confirmed by the analyses of S.A. Bulatovich on the 71 staters of the Orlovka Hoard which all date to the 5th and 4th centuries BC. [...]</p><p>1. No First Period coins (600-500 BC) were present in the Orlovka Hoard, so none could be analysed</p><p>2. The Second Period coins (500-460 BC) showed a gold content of 52.45%</p><p>3. The Third Period coins (460-400 BC) showed a gold content of 51.40%</p><p>4. The Fourth Period coins (400-330 BC) showed a gold content of 51.20%&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The first period coins were almost exclusively fish/tunny coinage, so your gold percentage would be much too high assuming the hektes follow the same pattern</p><p><br /></p><p>I unfortunately do not seem to have access to the cited paper about the coins of the Orlovka hoard to look at the actual breakdown <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>SNR86 &quot;Cyzicenes from the state historical museum, moscow and state hermitage collections, st. petersburgh&quot;, pages 6 and 7[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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