The Precious Metals
The use of the metals for the production of the more various objects laughed them from the civilization. At the beginnig, the working of the mainly diffuse metals boasted already one before longest tradition, inaugurated lots of years with the working of copper. Since the age of the great civilizations of the Middle East moreover was adopted the distinction between precious metals and not precious, famous also in Europe. The gold and the silver were at first employ to you for religious uses, in the production of objects it assigns to you to templi or of jewels and the cerimoniali accessories for semidivine figures (which the Pharaohs, the Middle Eastern king-clergymen, the European chief). Later they found employment in the realization of personal ornament, arm, several equipments, mirrors, supports for lamps, chairs, beds. At the beginnig of the VII century a.C gold and silver at last were used for coin of the first coins, in Asia Minor; from these regions the coins very soon diffused in all the Middle East and in Greece, becoming objects not only for their value, but also for their beauty.