Post your Electrum Coins 🌞

Mr_Spud

I’ve been wanting to get an Electrum coin for quite a while and recently picked up this one at Long Beach. Show me yours, thanks.

Coinlover101

Nice one Mr_Spud.

I had to Google to see what an Electrum coin was. I'll have to get one now

threefifty

Awesome coin!

I really like the 1914-1915 Mexican peso/dos pesos from Guerrero and Campo Morado mints, I think they technically qualify. I don't own any at the moment though.

lordmarcovan

Cool one, Spud.

I also have a tiny Greek electrum piece (9mm)- but it’s not as tiny as yours.

I like how they put yours in one of the newer “AirView” holders, because those doggone white prongs would have swallowed it up, otherwise! Mine got the stinkin’ prongs.

This Japanese coin is not so much from naturally occurring electrum alloy like the Greek ancients, but its gold content (.298 fine) is low enough that one could arguably count it as an electrum piece.

Mr_Spud

Thanks @lordmarcovan , I like the design on your Ionian piece. I might end up trying to get different ones showing the evolution in design from the earliest (like the one I got from 600-650bc) to relatively more modern like yours from 477-388bc. I’m thinking that having one from every 100 years or so starting with my 600-650bc would look cool. Sort of like an ancient type set showing the evolution of coin making technology. Supposedly ones like mine with plain designs from 600-650bc are considered to be the first coins ever made.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

The 7th Century BC and 6th Century BC coins from my "One Per Century" Set

lordmarcovan

Yeah, they started out being barely more than plain little beans, and evolved quite a bit, didn’t they.

I like how my hekte has a very advanced obverse (a superbly executed portrait of Athena in miniature), paired with a much more rudimentary reverse (the Archaic quadripartite punch mark).

Mr_Spud

I heard the square punch marks on the reverse were for anti counterfeit reasons so you could easier tell it was solid Electrum and not just plated.

carabonnair

I think I have posted this before, stater from Carthage