Note 887 — Chapter VI · Argos
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For the gradual rise in value of silver, see Reinach, Hist. par les Monnaies, pp. 72–3; in 438 B.C. gold was to silver as 14 : 1, in 408 as 12 : 1, in 356 as 10 : 1. For the fall in weight of the Attic silver pieces struck on the gold standard, cp. the fall from the Homeric gold talent of 135 grains to the Persian gold Daric of 130 grains, Ridgeway, Met. Curr. p. 126.