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was from the coins in this collodion only, that I 
difcovered the Eginean Talent to have been the 
money-ftandard of Macedon, before Philip changed 
it for the Attic. 
Dr. Hunter, likewlfe, very politely favoured me 
with the infpedtion of his curious cabinet of ancient 
coins, fome of which I fliall have occafion to men- 
tion in the following difcourfej as well as fome 
brought from Greece, by my learned friend James 
Stuart, Efq; who, it is hoped, will foon favour the 
Public with the fecond volume of his Antiquities of 
Athens. 
§ I . Of the Attic Drachm, 
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THE Greek coins were not only money, but 
weights. Thus their Drachm was both a piece of 
money, and a weight ; their Mina was i oo Drachms 
as a fum, and the fame number as a weight ; and 
their Talent contained 6o Minas, or 6000 Drachms, 
both by weight and tale. . 
This way of reckoning 100 Drachms to the Mina, 
and 60 Minas to the Talent, was common to all 
Greece ; and where the Drachm of one city differed 
from that of another, their refpedive Talents differed 
in the fame proportion (8). 
Of all the Greek cities and free ffates, both in 
Europe and the leffer Afia, that of Athens was the 
mod famous for the finenefs of their filver, and the 
(8) Pollux, L. IX. c. 6. § 86. 
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