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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 453067, member: 13719&quot;]<b>found it</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/BMC_06.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/BMC_06.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/BMC_06.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;The earliest coins were not made of gold or silver but of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-silver alloy. The Pactolus River (Sart Çayı) beside the slopes of Mount Tmolus (Boz Dağ) in the kingdom of Lydia was one of the most important sources of electrum in the ancient world, and just as the rulers of the Middle East today have become wealthy from oil, so the ancient Lydian kings became rich by accumulating and minting coins from electrum.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://rjohara.net/coins/lydia-electrum/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rjohara.net/coins/lydia-electrum/" rel="nofollow">http://rjohara.net/coins/lydia-electrum/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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