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the alloy that bankrolled empires before anyone agreed what money should be made of.
means A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of gold and silver, pale yellow in color, used in antiquity for the first coins and prized for its luster.
from From Latin electrum, borrowed from Greek ḗlektron, a word that did double duty: it meant both this gold-silver alloy and amber, the fossilized tree resin. The two were linked, scholars think, by their shared pale, gleaming color. Amber's other famous trick — building up a static charge when rubbed — eventually lent its Greek name to a far larger idea: 'electricity.' So the metal that minted the first coins shares a root with the spark that lights the modern world.
- natural mix
- Gold and silver fused without a chemist's help
- first coins
- Lydia minted history's first coinage from it
- greek name
- Same word the Greeks used for amber
- color tell
- Pale yellow betrays its hidden silver
- electron link
- Amber's static spark named the electron itself
electrum coin ancient lydia — naturally occurring gold-silver alloy coins minted by king alyattes around 600 bce, world's first metal coins
electrum bitcoin wallet — open-source cryptocurrency wallet first released in 2011, one of the most popular bitcoin wallets