Anyone up for a FRIDAY METAL PORN POST?

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Weiss
Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 14, 2017 9:09AM in Precious Metals

I go the new palladium eagle this week. But since I already posted that...

Here's one of my oldest gold coins. In fact, it is arguably the very earliest gold coin, because it is arguably the first ever coin.

This is a "trite" from the kingdom of Lydia, now part of western Turkey. The people there had found and exchanged shiny nuggets of alluvial electrum -- the natural alloy of gold and silver they found in local rivers. After a while it made sense to start having a more standard size and shape to make trade easier. To help that, they began stamping shapes into them. Then the king got involved, and began stamping his seal (a roaring lion) onto those that met the purity and weight he wanted...and the first coin was born.

This one dates from about 600 BC, so it's roughly 2600 years old.

Got any old gold or silver? Or maybe the piece you like the best that you've owned for the longest time?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Weiss... Now that is a unique piece and a real treasure .... Cheers, RickO

  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Indeed a very cool piece!

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Weiss....Nice assortment of silver coins.... must have been interesting .....Cheers, RickO

  • JJM
    JJM Posts: 8,129 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great pic!

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  • Downtown1974
    Downtown1974 Posts: 7,189 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice PMs all. I cannot contribute this week. Nothing new for my stack.

  • NVU
    NVU Posts: 284 ✭✭✭
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    Had this type set put together awhile back and still looking for a few more add to the set in the future.
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    A set of panda

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @CCC2010 Nice skull...I have the two ounce skull...much smaller version...Cheers, RickO

  • CCC2010
    CCC2010 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
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    @ricko said:
    @CCC2010 Nice skull...I have the two ounce skull...much smaller version...Cheers, RickO

    Thank you...Then i have No doubt that you will love the bigger size/version my friend. Guaranteed!!! :)

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  • PRECIOUSMENTAL
    PRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
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    Yes, Nice Skull, I have the Kilo version, in the red satin lined casket, purchased when they were first offered.
    Why? Because I could!
    YPS is not too far from me, I need to contact him and take a cruise there on my H-D, when it is Pour Day!

  • divecchia
    divecchia Posts: 6,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Love the skull for sure!!! :+1::+1:

    Thanks for sharing it.

    Donato

    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm up for it....but have nothing to post so I will sit back and enjoy :smile:

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