The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight StandardsRidgeway, William
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The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
Ridgeway, William
Money -- Origin; Weights and measures -- History
22. Egyptian Five-Kat weight 240
23. Lion weight 245
24. Assyrian Duck weight 245
25. Weights in the form of Sheep 271
26. Coin of Salamis in Cyprus 272
27. Bull’s-head Five-shekel Weight 283
28. Lydian Electrum Coin 295
29. Coin of Croesus 298
30. Coin of Eretria 306
31. Coin of Cyrene with Silphium plant 313
32. Coin of Cyzicus with tunny fish 316
33. Coins of Olbia in the form of tunny fish 317
34. Coin of Tenedos with double-headed axe 318
35. Coin of Phanes, earliest known inscribed coin 320
36. Archaic Coin of Samos 321
37. Coin of Cnidus 321
38. Coin of Thurii 322
39. Coin of Rhoda in Spain 322
40. Tetradrachm of Athens 325
41. Vase from Cyrene, showing the weighing of the Silphium 326
42. Coin of Metapontum 327
43. Coin of Croton 328
44. Tortoise of Aegina 328
45. Coin of Boeotia with Shield 331
46. Coin of Lycia 332
47. Coin of Messana 336
48. Aes Rude 355
49. Bronze Decussis, with figure of Cow 356
50. As (_Aes grave_) 361
51. As (semi-uncial) 362
52. As, 3rd Cent. A.D. (_Third Brass_) 362
53. Didrachm of Corinth 362
54. Sesterce of First Roman Silver coinage 363
55. Didrachm of Tarentum 364
56. Romano-Campanian coin 377
57. Victoriatus 377
58. Sextans (_aes grave_) 379
59. Gold Solidus of Julian the Apostate 384
60. Tremissis of Leo I. 385
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