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Sucoinum, Amber

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coupling the electrum from Sardis with the gold of India. By a singular coincidence, the primitive gold coinage of the Lydians is in electrum. It would seem they knew not the art (a difficult process) to separate the silver from the native gold of the Pactolus washings. " Lindus in Rhodes possesses a temple of Minerva, in which Helen has dedi­cated a cup made of electrum, tradition says, upon the model of one of her own breasts. It is the peculiarity of electrum (the metal) to be more lustrous than silver by lamplight. The native kind also detects the presence of poison ; for then an appearance like the rainbow flies to and fro in the vessel, attended by the crackling of flame, and gives warning by this double indication."
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