Lydian Lion - fractional silver coin
 

The worlds first coin - the Lydian Lion, 600BC made of Gold + Silver alloy.

Features a lion's head on the front and a paw print on the reverse :

http://rg.ancients.info/lion/Lydian_trite_15_o.jpghttp://rg.ancients.info/lion/Lydian_trite_15_r.jpg

There is a new kid on the block making gold and silver coins (including fractional silver down to 1/4 oz) using the same design :

http://www.dgcmagazine.com/blog/wp-c...02/lion220.jpghttp://lydianmint.com/slr.jpg

Cute having the date as 600BC - 2009AD ... just shows that Gold (and Silver) really is Money after all.

More info here :
http://www.dgcmagazine.com/blog/inde...l-silver-coin/

Particularly interesting is this part :
Be interesting to see how it goes. Its a nice coin anyway in 1 Oz, with a great theme ... but I wonder what the real demand is like for fractional silver coins.

Re: Lydian Lion - fractional silver coin
 

A nice thread for fractional silver is:

http://goldismoney.info/forums/showt...ctional+silver

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Re: Lydian Lion - fractional silver coin
 

that's an interesting color. i experimented a little and took it into Photoshop and sampled the color of the brighter part of the image. e.g. above the lion's eye.
R 235
G 246
B 232

slightly green ! of course that might have been reflected light.

a little further up the head image, where it's darker but not as dark as in the mouth, the color is
R 206
G 182
B 146

which is typical of a tan color - lots of red, a little less green, a lot less blue.

i'm an engineer, i'm paid to be anal-retentive ! :23_30_104:

Re: Lydian Lion - fractional silver coin
 

been discussed here before:

http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=353114
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=355315

I have a few, they're nice and based out of Ann Arbor MI not too far from me.

If you want to order just a couple and don't mind the premiums you can get em from joyce.

Re: Lydian Lion - fractional silver coin
 

Mixture of GOLD and SILVER in one metal...

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