The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
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Metal money and weight standards are traced to their beginnings in this study by William Ridgeway, then professor of Greek at Queen's College, Cork. He applies the comparative method, where earlier numismatists looked only at the oldest coins of Lydia, Greece and Italy and metrologists only at the systems of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. He offers explanations for the earliest Greek coin types and silver coins, the obolos, the Sicilian litra, the Roman as, and the mina and its sixty-fold, the talent. A section on gold, which he argues was found before the other metals, questions linguistic palaeontology. Cambridge, 1892.
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- Author
- William Ridgeway
- Reading time
- About 11 hours
- Pages
- 303
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Ancient History
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