The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. CHAPTER I. The Ox and the Talent in Homer.4. CHAPTER II. Primitive Systems of Currency.5. CHAPTER III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE OX AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD.6. CHAPTER III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE OX AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD. (continued 2)7. CHAPTER IV. Primaeval Trade Routes.8. CHAPTER V. The Art of Weighing was first employed for Gold.9. CHAPTER VI. The Gold Unit everywhere the value of a Cow.10. CHAPTER VII. The Weight Systems of China and Further Asia.11. CHAPTER VIII. How were Primitive Weight Units fixed?12. CHAPTER IX. Statement and Criticism of the Old Doctrines.13. CHAPTER X. The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine.14. CHAPTER X. The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine. (continued 2)15. CHAPTER XI. The Lydian and Persian Systems.16. CHAPTER XII. The Greek System.17. CHAPTER XII. The Greek System. (continued 2)18. APPENDIX A The Homeric Trial Scene.19. APPENDIX B. What was the Unit of Assessment in the Constitution of Servius Tullius?20. APPENDIX C. Keltic and Scandinavian Weight Systems.21. INDEX.