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The Lydian coinage was made of electrum - an alloy of gold and silver. The headline suggests they made both gold and silver coins, which they didn't.
by HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
The Lydian coinage was made of electrum - an alloy of gold and silver. The headline suggests they made both gold and silver coins, which they didn't.
- suzakus 2y agoKroisos made the first gold and silver coins, who was from Lydia. There's a common misbelief that Lydia made the first coins which is simply false, even ignoring the east asian coinage there's earlier electrum pieces (with no design or simple geometric design as one would perhaps expect in a transition from simple bullion)
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoI wasn't aware of that, but still the linked article is only depicting and talking about the earlier electrum coinage, while saying "gold, silver" in the headline. Not sure why this is on HN anyway ... a useless article with minimal information, and not news in any shape or form!
- suzakus 2y agoThe article is terrible agreed. It actually happens to have a picture of the gold type (with the footer "Lycia coin - social media"). The pictures below that are electrum, however.