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Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law

Note 3 — Chapter I · THE CURRENCY IN WHICH WERGELDS WERE RECKONED AND PAID.

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The range of the variation in the actual weight of the stater as a coin (without necessarily implying variation in the theoretic weight in wheat-grains) is given by metrologists as follows:

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Babylonian 8·18

Crœsus 8·18

Darius 8·36 to 8·41

Attic 8·64 to 8·73

Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great 8·73

The Greek cities on the Black Sea 9·06

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