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  Electrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electrum was used in as early as the third millennium BCE in Old Kingdom Egypt, sometimes as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop ancient Egyptian pyramids.
Electrum is believed to have been used in coins circa 600 BC in Lydia under the reign of Alyattes, infrequently referred to as Alyattes II as a result of a possible previous king Alyattes, though it is far from certain that this figure was a king of Lydia or even existed.
Electrum was much better for coinage than gold, mostly because it was harder and more durable, but also because techniques for refining gold were not widespread at the time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electrum   (791 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Electrum [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold, silver, and lesser amounts of copper.
By contrast, electrum from the Ural mountains carries 20% copper.
Electrum is believed to have been first used in coins circa 700 BC in Lydia under the reign of Alyattes II.
encyclozine.com /Electrum   (450 words)

  
 Electrum Lion Coins of Ancient Lydia (Ancient Coins of Miletos)
The electrum lion coins of ancient Lydia should probably be considered the world’s the first true coins, in the sense of a state-issued quantity of metal impressed with a consistent type.
Reid Goldsborough has written a very helpful review of what is known about the history of these electrum lion coins of Lydia, and his essay includes citations to the relevant technical literature on the subject.
This type is known from electrum thirds (4.70 g), sixths (2.35 g), and twelfths (1.18 g), all with approximately the same design.
rjohara.net /coins/lydia-electrum   (464 words)

  
 Electrum at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Electrum is a native alloy of gold and silver in which the latter metal may be present in quantities of up to 40%.
Electrum from the Ural mountains carries 20% copper.
The color of electrum is pale yellow or yellowish-white and the name is derived from the Greek word mentioned in the Odyssey meaning a metallic substance consisting of gold alloyed with silver.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Electrum.html   (114 words)

  
 Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus (Miletos, Ionia, Anatolia, Turkey)
The electrum lion coins of the kings of Lydia — Considered by some to be the first true coins, these archaic electrum pieces were issued by the early Lydian kings—probably Alyattes or Sadyattes—about 600 BC, several decades before the reign of the famous Lydian king Croesus.
The early electrum lion coins of Miletus — The first series of coins that is attributable to Miletus with certainty is a well-known group of sixth-century electrum issues that include full staters as well as thirds, sixths, twelfths, and twenty-fourths.
The electrum and silver lion/scorpion issues — A series of early electrum forty-eighth stater fractions that feature a lion’s face or paw on the obverse along with a scorpion on the reverse may have been minted at Miletus or at nearby Mylasa in Caria.
rjohara.net /coins   (1647 words)

  
 Electrum
Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver.
In most electrum deposits there will also be some amounts of copper, this can vary up to as much as about 20% in some places.
The word electrum comes from the Greek word elektron, referring to the gold silver alloy, although the same word is also used for amber, in both cases this is because of its pale yellow colour.
www.taxfreegold.co.uk /electrum.html   (353 words)

  
 THE BRITISH MUSEUM: World of Money, History of Money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BC famously stated that 'the Lydians were the first people we know to have struck and used coinage of silver and gold.' He is almost correct.
The earliest coins were in fact made from electrum, an alloy of gold and silver but, on the evidence of their findspots, do seem to belong to this part of the world.
The earliest known hoard of electrum coins (and thus the earliest known coin hoard) was found buried in a small pot during the British Museum's excavations of the Artemision, or Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in 1904-5.
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /worldofmoney/world_wom.html   (433 words)

  
 Electrum Coins
Numismatists firmly believe that the first coins were made of electrum, a naturally-occuring alloy mostly of gold and silver, with traces of other metals.
Dating from about 650 BC, these electrum coins were eclipsed about 100 years later by coins of gold and coins of silver.
The principle source of electrum staters in archaic and classical times was Kyzikos, a colony of Miletos, on the southern shore of the Propontis, in Mysia.
www.limunltd.com /numismatica/articles/electrum-coins.html   (868 words)

  
 World's First Coin - Lydian Trite - Alyattes
Other electrum pieces without a pictorial design but instead with an empty field, pellets, striations, parallel lines, or crisscrossing lines across their obverse were minted at about the same times as Lydian Lions.
The electrum plating has worn off in large areas, leaving the silver interior exposed, particularly at the high points of the obverse and reverse, the recesses of the incuse punch on the reverse, and the countermarks.
The uncertain intrinsic value of electrum was the primary reason it was largely superseded as a numismatic metal by silver and to a lesser extent until the time of Alexander the Great by gold.
rg.ancients.info /lion/article.html   (8434 words)

  
 ElectrumX - Fast Gold Exchanger
Note: Electrum is open for business Tuesday through Saturday and closed on Sunday and Monday.
Electrum is defined as gold and silver having a quivering beauty and glowing brilliance all its own.
The very elements and minerals of the earth are what have caused life to exist, without the beauty of the earth and the curative ability our health and well being would cease.
www.electrumx.com   (112 words)

  
 Electrum Dragons
Electrum dragons are distant relatives of both gold and silver dragons; some sources report they are a crossbreed of the two types, but this rumor is unfounded.
Electrum dragons speak their own language, a tongue common to all good dragons, and 16% of all hatchling electrum dragons have an ability to communicate with any intelligent creature.
Electrum dragons live in large underground caverns; the enterances to their lairs are usually well hidden with natural vegetation, and are quite difficult to find.
www.stormpages.com /i/islandofryus/Electrum.html   (631 words)

  
 Electrum Partners - Proprietry Technology
The investment characteristics of leased assets with creditworthy lessees are quite different from the investment characteristics of owner-occupied farms and residences, yet financial intermediaries limit asset investors to variations on a single financing theme for all leveraged property.
Electrum Partners addressed this problem by designing and developing a line of proprietary financial and investment products that use the investment characteristics of leased property to improve the risk-reward investment trade-off for all classes of capital.
The possibility of such products arose when Richard Graff, one of the principals of Electrum Partners, created a conceptual investment model for leased property that makes it possible to describe and quantify differences in the investment characteristics between leased and unleased property.
www.electrum.us   (335 words)

  
 Electrum News
Building on years of hard won experience Electrum launch's Impress a range of smart tools and easily tailored solutions, for the office, that have been developed to meet a number of clear business needs.
Electrum was on hand to help them through this change and supplied an advanced set of Microsoft Office templates, which they used to produce a 50-page print-ready document with detailed stats and charts on 64 stocks, all meeting the new corporate design guidelines.
Electrum recently completed further enhancements to MilkBench, a benchmarking system used by dairy farmers in England and Wales.
www.electrum.co.uk /news.htm   (393 words)

  
 ►All About Electrum | Miss Peridot's Encyclopedia of Gems, Diamonds and Jewelry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marya Dabrowski, of Electrum Jewelry (Providence, Rhode Island) comes from a long line of artists, sculptors and woodcarvers.
She is a self-taught jeweler who began silver smithing at the age of twelve and later studied at the Academy of Jewelry Arts in New York, concentrating in gold granulation, hand-cutting of gems and cloisonne enameling.
We could not fin any Electrum in the big database.
www.missperidot.com /012/term.asp?tid=120   (658 words)

  
 Greek Turtles, ancient coins, Aegina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Either the Lydians or Greeks along the coast of present day Turkey were most likely the first to produce coins, back in the late seventh century.
These consisted of lumps of a metal called electrum (a mixture of gold and silver) stamped with an official impression to guarantee the coin was of a certain weight.
Aegina picked up on this idea and improved upon it by stamping coins of (relatively) pure silver instead electrum, which contained varying proportions of gold and silver.
forumancientcoins.com /forvm/Articles/greek_turtles_ancient_coins.htm   (675 words)

  
 Cry Electrum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cry Electrum is the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary!
The only Englishman to become Cry Electrum was Nicholas Breakspear, who was Cry Electrum from 1154 to 1159.
Contrary to popular belief, Cry Electrum is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
cryelectrum.blogspot.com   (255 words)

  
 Electrum Productions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Washington, DC based Electrum Productions is a full service event production company providing design services, technical equipment, and event managment.
Also see the clients that Electrum Productions has served in the last year of business.
Here is a definition and the history of electrum.
www.electrumproductions.com   (135 words)

  
 Gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adding copper yields a redder metal, iron blue, aluminium purple, platinum metals white, and natural bismuth together with silver alloys produce fl.
Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent silver, but often much more — alloys with a silver content over 20% are called electrum.
As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity becomes lower.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold   (3534 words)

  
 Universal Electric Vehicle - UEV Products: Spyder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Electrum Spyder is an exciting 2 passenger convertible all electric freeway flier that will be available in a limited production.
Powered by a 300 vdc system, the Spyder provides an effective range of up to 150 miles at a top speed governed at 80 miles an hour on a full charge using nickel zinc batteries, standard in all of our vehicles.
As with all of our Electrum series the Spyder can latter be up graded to lithium ion batteries when available with a range of up to 300 miles on a single charge.
www.universalelectricvehicle.com /spyder.html   (200 words)

  
 Net Dot Music, Inc. * Instrumental Fusion CDs * Jazz Fusion * World Fusion * Progressive Rock *
There are a limited number of Electrum "Standard Deviation" CDs remaining in our inventory.
This title will be discontinued in compact disc format.
Electrum's first release, "Frames Of Mind", has already gone out of print.
www.netdotmusic.com   (298 words)

  
 Welcome To Electrum International
Welcome to the home of Electrum International and our remarkable Dietary Supplements.
Based on cutting-edge nutritional research that incorporates the revolutionary discoveries of quantum physics, these products will introduce you to a level of cleansing, and support for optimal immune function, undreamed of in past decades.*
Electrum® Minerals They are water-soluble crystals grown on the elements that carry the element information.
www.electruminternational.com /index1.html   (264 words)

  
 EMM Electrum Freestoreclub Prepaidliving with all gold, silver, no free members
EMM Electrum Freestoreclub Prepaidliving with all gold, silver, no free members
electrum: (e·lec·trum) noun; an alloy of gold and silver
EMM ELECTRUM is the Ultimate Power Team of Freestoreclub.
www.geocities.com /electrumemm   (293 words)

  
 EQTC - Item: electrum star amulet
These will be temporary and I will fix any errors as fast as I can.
Jewelcraft Components: enchanted electrum bar, star rose quartz
To make electrum star amulet (Jewelcraft: Yield 1, trivial 98), Combine the following in a jeweler's kit, planar jeweler's kit, or collapsible jeweler's kit
www.eqtraders.com /items/show_item.php?item=3160&menustr=080070900000   (360 words)

  
 Less3D's Jewelery Guide
That'll be 2 platinum 6 gold 2 silver 4 copper per Enchanted Electrum Bar
That'll be 11 platinum 7 gold 7 silver 4 copper for the Electrum Jasper Earring
That'll be 25 platinum 3 gold 5 silver 7 copper for the Electrum Pearl Choker
home.kc.rr.com /less3d/eq/jeweler.htm   (5149 words)

  
 Ken Shoulders' Electrum Validum
Shoulders describes the HDCC entity as "a relatively discrete, self-contained, negatively charged, high density state of matter...
[a bundle of electrons that] appears to be produced by the application of a high electrical field between a cathode and an anode." He has given it the name "Electrum Validum" (EV), meaning "strong electron", from the Greek "elektron" (electronic charge) and the Latin "valere" (to be strong, having power to unite).
Ken Shoulders suggests that EVs travel in an electromagnetic container, a potential well with a depth of about 2 kv.
www.rexresearch.com /ev/ev.htm   (4829 words)

  
 everquest casters realm - news, spells, items, equipment, prices, maps, quests, factions (c) 1999-2002
Turns a bar of electrum into enchanted electrum for jewelcraft.
You must have a bar of electrum in you inventory for this to work.
The good thing about this spell is electrum
eq.crgaming.com /spells/spell.asp?Id=63   (188 words)

  
 Electrum: Electrum mineral data from mindat.org mineralogy database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Electrum: Electrum mineral data from mindat.org mineralogy database
Variety of Gold containing Silver, usually with >20% Ag Classification of Electrum
Please feel free to link to this page.
www.mindat.org /min-1365.html   (109 words)

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