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Hume's Political Discourses

Note 28 — OF PUBLIC CREDIT.

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Plut. in Vita Alex. He makes these treasures amount to 80,000 talents, or about 15 millions sterling. Quintus Curtius (lib. 5, cap. 2) says that Alexander found in Susa above 50,000 talents.

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