An Essay on the Ancient Weights and Money, and the Roman and Greek Liquid Measures,: With an Appendix on the Roman and Greek FootS. Collingwood, printer to the University, 1836 - 254 sidor |
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... silver coin and the value at the market - price of silver would be per- ceptible ; and if strict accuracy were required , it would sometimes be necessary to take account of this . But , practically , all our ideas of value are measured ...
... silver coin and the value at the market - price of silver would be per- ceptible ; and if strict accuracy were required , it would sometimes be necessary to take account of this . But , practically , all our ideas of value are measured ...
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... silver money is , practically , the only way of valuing the small sums in ancient money , such as the single coins of silver . Moreover , it is to be considered further with regard to the large sums , that in late times they were ...
... silver money is , practically , the only way of valuing the small sums in ancient money , such as the single coins of silver . Moreover , it is to be considered further with regard to the large sums , that in late times they were ...
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... silver . The choice of silver for the metal of money was at first arbitrary ; and copper or gold might have been used ; in which case the same names of weights would have expressed very different ideas of value with equal pro- priety ...
... silver . The choice of silver for the metal of money was at first arbitrary ; and copper or gold might have been used ; in which case the same names of weights would have expressed very different ideas of value with equal pro- priety ...
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... silver coins , very numerous , and in excellent condition . Indeed , it appears , that in all cases , the gold was coined more carefully , according to the full standard weight , than the silver . Most of the following coins are in the ...
... silver coins , very numerous , and in excellent condition . Indeed , it appears , that in all cases , the gold was coined more carefully , according to the full standard weight , than the silver . Most of the following coins are in the ...
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... silver gives an average a little be- low this . In the British Museum thirty tetradrachms of Alexander the Great ... silver coins are not so accurately sized as the gold , but as much so as the Attic silver ; and on account of the great ...
... silver gives an average a little be- low this . In the British Museum thirty tetradrachms of Alexander the Great ... silver coins are not so accurately sized as the gold , but as much so as the Attic silver ; and on account of the great ...
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An Essay on the Ancient Weights and Money, and the Roman and Greek Liquid ... Robert Hussey Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1836 |
An Essay on the Ancient Weights and Money, and the Roman and Greek Liquid ... Robert Hussey Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1836 |
An Essay on the Ancient Weights and Money, and the Roman and Greek Liquid ... Robert Hussey Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1836 |
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Acad Alexander ancient money ancient weights ancient writers Antiq asses assigned Athens Attic drachma Attic money Attic standard Attic talent Attic tetradrachm aureus authority average avoirdupois belong Böckh British Museum calculations called circulation common computed congius contained copper Corinth currency daricus denarius didrachm early Eckhel Egina Eginetan Eisenschmidt equal exactly farthings feet give gold coinage gold coins gold money grains Greaves Greece Greek money half Hebrew Herod Heron Hesychius inches Inscr later Macedonian maneh means measures of length mentioned metal minæ obol ounce pence Plin Pliny Pollux probable proportion quinarius Raper reckoned Roman currency Roman foot Roman pound Rome Romé de l'Isle sanctuary says seems sestertius shekel shew signify silver coins silver money specimens stade standard of weight stater Suidas supposed tetradrachm tion troy troy weight weight alloy weights and money word xoûs xxxiii
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Sida 175 - For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Sida 183 - It remains, then, that we may consider the word drachma also, like other words in the Greek system of weights, to be derived from some one of the oriental tongues, and that the Hebrew dnrkemon and adarkon are forms of words from a common root with it.
Sida 45 - Minerva resembling that of the oldest coins, but not quite so clumsy ; the third, of the latest kind, broad and thin, with the owl standing on the diota, the helmet of Minerva's head surmounted by a high crest, and with other characteristics of the later coinage of Athens.
Sida 49 - Hussey (" Weights and Money," p. 49, note) says that the passages referred to by Bockh ("Pol. EC. Ath." i. 18) cannot be proved to signify the silver tetradrachm rather than the gold stater. Dr. Arnold, however, in a note to the passage in Thucydides (iii. 70) writes as follows : — " orarrçp. Probably the silver stater or tetradrachm, and not the gold stater, which was equal to twenty drachmas (see Böckh, ' Staatshaushalt, der Athen.,
Sida 118 - From the middle of the fifth to the middle of the ninth centuries (c.
Sida 75 - Aeginetan standard : others take them for tetradrachms. Mr. Hussey (pp.74, 75), from existing coins, which he takes for cistophori, determines it to be about $ of the later Attic drachma, or Roman denarius of the republic, and worth in our money about 7$d.
Sida 132 - As the pound weight was the unit, so all the accounts were made in terms of weight, and hence came the common phraseology of the Latin in terms applied to money, as expensa %, impendia, &c. Hence also the expression
Sida 132 - But the phrase seems properly to have referred to the standard by which a sum of money was measured, not to the size of the coins. And thus...
Sida 35 - The attempt to reconcile these authorities would seem to be, what the old German proverb calls,