Just where and when these new denominations originated is not clear, but That a new series of denominations was introduced, based on 1/3 staters, with fractions ranging down to 1/96 stater (and even 1/192 stater). Mint on the Samian standard) and Ionia B (probably Miletus**), together with a limited range of associated binary fractions - 1/2 and 1/4 staters, plus the odd 1/8 stater ^. Initially we have unfigured "staters" from Samos (or at least a I will say however that, taking the charts at face value, it would seem likely that coinage was introduced in two phases. (For more details see the Appendix below "The Introduction of Electrum Coinage"). I'm not going to try to answer these questionsÄefinitively here myself, but I hope that the data as presented here will help readers assess the various theories that have been put forward over the years, and to understand the problems still to be solved in this Ultimately of course the basic aim of the study of these early types is to determine when and where (and why) coinage was first introduced. These charts can be found on the "Early Electrum Coins" page. Some charts of images of the key early electrum issues, ordered in space and time, down to roughly the fall of Croesus. Therefore, in order to give collectors a better overall understanding of these types and how they relate together I have taken the limited evidence that we do have to go on and put together Surprisingly this is enough to discourage the interest of many collectors, particularly as even the smaller examples of these types are not exactly cheap. Result ordinary collectors often see these coins as a bewildering confusion of unattributed types, and hence they hardly know where to start when trying to put together a meaningful collection of the period. Where and when these types were struck, so that a definitive study of them is not as yet possible, and hence there is no single comprehensive and up to date catalog of these types to which collectors can turn*. However, they are faced with the problem that we still have very limited knowledge of exactly Most collectors of ancient coins are naturally interested in the early electrum issues of Ionia and Lydia. This site is meant to provide ordinary collectors of ancient coins with a basic guide to the earliest coins in the western world, namely the electrum issues of Ionia and Lydia, and the gold
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