Note 677 — Chapter V · Lydia
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Radet, pp. 31 f. On the political importance of the great highways of trade in Lydia see Radet, Lydie, pp. 108 (tolls along caravan routes in eighth century B.C., Nic. Dam. F.H.G. III. p. 381, fr. 49), 227–8 (ferry tolls levied by the state under the dynasty founded by Gyges, and state compensation for damage done by the flooding of the waterways, Xanthus, F.H.G. I. p. 37, fr. 4).
For Sardis as geographically more likely than any coast city to have evolved a metal coinage see Radet, Lydie, p. 156; Th. Reinach, Hist. par les Monn. p. 22. For the contrary view see Babelon, Rev. Num. 1895, pp. 352 f., Origines, p. 218.