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The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

Note 306 — Chapter X · The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine.

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As no better selection of these weights could be made than that of Mr Head, I have followed his description. Cf. R. S. Poole, in Madden’s Jewish Coinage, p. 261 seqq., and the Report of the Warden of the Standards, 1874-5, for a full account of these weights.

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