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immediate vicinity of Athens, attended by such circumstances, as 

 to leave no room to entertain any reasonable doubt of its being 

 genuine. * 



The stater of Cyzicum was current at Athens, but we do not 

 know what the value of it was ; at the Bosphorus it was worth 28 

 Attic drachmas. (Demosth. adv. Phorm.) A stater of Cyzicum is en- 

 graved in the Thes. Brand. Beger. part. i. 490. 



The golden staters of Phocasa are mentioned in one of the Athenian 

 inscriptions published by Chandler, Part. ii. Ins. iv. 1. 



Of the Macedonian money, we find, that the golden staters of 

 Philip and Alexander, called <pi\nnre>o. and AXe|ai/^g«o<, (Pollux. 9. 

 1024.) weighed 134, 132, and 131 grains. The Slx^oc, or 

 TSTQccfyotxuov %£>utou of Alexander and Lysimachus weighed 266 and 

 265 grains ; the rer^aa-raT^ of the latter 540 grains. An engraving 

 from a golden tetradrachm of Alexander is produced by Liebe, p. v. 



* Respecting the value of the talent of gold, see Corsini, Diss, xii., and Hemsterhusius 

 on Pollux, 1. ix. 57., and Knight's Prol. on Horn. sec. 55. The antient globular gold 

 coins of some of the Asiatics, are the Talent of Homer, struck and stamped, and 

 weighing about 260 grains. Among the gold coins in circulation at Athens, we may 

 mention the Darics, worth, as well as the stater, 20 silver drachmas. There is no doubt 

 respecting the value of this coin among any of the ancient writers. 



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