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The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

Note 307 — Chapter X · The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine.

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The Manah is of course the Meneh so familiar from Belshazzar’s vision, mene, mene tekel upharsin (Daniel v. 25), which the best scholars follow M. Clermont-Ganneau (Journal Asiatique, 1886) in interpreting as a mina, a mina, a shekel, and the parts of a shekel.

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