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Electrum coinage of Persia and Iran

Natural gold–silver alloy used in the very earliest struck coinage reaching Persian markets. 1 catalogued example spanning Pre-Achaemenid & Median.

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Pre-Achaemenid & Median · c. 1000 – 550 BCE

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Lydian Electrum Trite ("Lion Stater")

King Alyattes

c. 610–560 BCE

Earliest coins to reach Persian markets; the prototype Achaemenid coinage would later replace.

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