2021Euromed – Traditional Jewellery of the Mediterranean - First Day Cover

At the dawn of our era, the Greek geographer Strabo devoted a section of his Geographica to praising the auriferous wealth of the Iberian Peninsula, particularly the southwestern regions (Geog. 3.2.8), and archaeology has shown this praise to be warranted. From the start of the Metal Age, gold was the favoured medium for experimentation and the preferred means of producing luxury objects: large jewellery pieces of solid gold (some weighing well over two pounds), which marked the end of the Bronze Age.