Judges 17:4 - "So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah."

Acts 19:24 - "For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen."

Gold and copper probably were discovered before silver, but silver was known and valued by mankind before the time of recorded history. Slag deposits dating from 3000 B.C. have been found in Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea. A famous ancient silver district was located at Laurium…