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William Ridgeway. The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. The Ox and the Talent in Homer
The Homeric Talent
The wider question of Weight-standards in general
CHAPTER II. Primitive Systems of Currency
CHAPTER III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE OX AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD
CHAPTER IV. Primaeval Trade Routes
CHAPTER V. The Art of Weighing was first employed for Gold
CHAPTER VI. The Gold Unit everywhere the value of a Cow
CHAPTER VII. The Weight Systems of China and Further Asia
CHAPTER VIII. How were Primitive Weight Units fixed?
CHAPTER IX. Statement and Criticism of the Old Doctrines
“The metric systems of the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians
“The Phoenician traders
“The Lydians
The invention of coinage
The Greeks begin to coin money
Weight standards
The Silver Standards derived from the Gold Shekel[261]
The coin-standards of Greece Proper
PART II
CHAPTER X. The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine
Egypt
The Assyrio-Babylonian System
Phoenician Standard
The Phoenician Colonies
CHAPTER XI. The Lydian and Persian Systems
The Persian Standard
CHAPTER XII. The Greek System
The Aeginetan Standard
Variation of Silver Standards
Commercial Weight System
The Sicilian System
The Italian System. Bronze
Gold and Silver
Roman System
Conclusion
APPENDIX A. The Homeric Trial Scene
APPENDIX B. What was the Unit of Assessment in the Constitution of Servius Tullius?
APPENDIX C. Keltic and Scandinavian Weight Systems
Footnote
INDEX
