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The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards, by William Ridgeway, M.A

The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards, by William Ridgeway, M.A

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Author
Ridgeway, William, 1853-1926
Title
The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
Credits
MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HG: Social sciences: Finance
Subject
Money -- Origin
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 66160
Release Date
August 28, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE ORIGIN OF METALLIC CURRENCY AND WEIGHT STANDARDS.
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5.CHAPTER I. The Ox and the Talent in Homer. — The Homeric Talent. — The wider question of Weight-standards in general.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. Primitive Systems of Currency.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE OX AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. Primaeval Trade Routes.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. The Art of Weighing was first employed for Gold.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. The Gold Unit everywhere the value of a Cow.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. The Weight Systems of China and Further Asia.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. How were Primitive Weight Units fixed?
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. Statement and Criticism of the Old Doctrines. — “ The metric systems of the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. — “ The Phoenician traders. — “ The Lydians. — The invention of coinage. — The Greeks begin to coin money. — Weight standards. — The Silver Standards derived from the Gold Shekel [261] . — The coin-standards of Greece Proper.
  14. 14.PART II.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. The Systems of Egypt, Babylon, and Palestine. — Egypt. — The Assyrio-Babylonian System. — Phoenician Standard. — The Phoenician Colonies.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. The Lydian and Persian Systems. — The Persian Standard.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. The Greek System. — The Aeginetan Standard. — Variation of Silver Standards. — Commercial Weight System. — The Sicilian System. — The Italian System. Bronze. — Gold and Silver. — Roman System. — Conclusion.
  18. 18.APPENDIX A The Homeric Trial Scene.
  19. 19.APPENDIX B. What was the Unit of Assessment in the Constitution of Servius Tullius?
  20. 20.APPENDIX C. Keltic and Scandinavian Weight Systems.
  21. 21.FOOTNOTES
  22. 22.INDEX.

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