White Gold – exhibition in the Israel Museum
by Ursula Kampmann
July 5, 2012 – Electrum coins own the charm of the archaic, early, crude, when they were struck for the very first time – well, when exactly was it, anyway? – in Lydia (or maybe rather in Ionia?). Whenever we speak of early electrum coins every specialist in numismatics will start stammering because they all know how rare clearly proved facts are in that field.