26 ;I 
266 
265I 
264^ 
2641 
264 
263^ 
>4)iS55i 
[ 480 ] 
Seven perfedl tetradrachms of Alex- 
ander, out of a much greater number, 
in Mr. Duane’s colledlion,give a mean 
Didrachm of a little more than 132I 
grains, as in the margin ; which 
anfwers near enough to the gold 
coins, to prove, that the Drachm was 
the common flandard, both for the 
gold and filver money. 
Mean 
I (hall now Hiew, that this was the Attic Drachm. 
The lilver Stater, or Tetradrachm, is the mod: 
common Attic coin now remaining, and fome of 
them are in very perfeft prefervation. They all 
have the head of Minerva on one fide, and an 
owl on the other, with the infeription A0E. 
Difenfchmid obferves, that they appear, by the 
workmanOiip, and other circumftances, to be of 
different ages (7). 
The mod; ancient are very rude work (8), of a 
fmall diameter and thick. He had one of them in 
the mod: perfedl prefervation, weighing 273^ Troy 
grains 5 and there is one like it in the Britidi 
Mnfeum of 272 -%. grains. 
The fecond fort is fomewhat better work, though 
rude, and the owl dands in a fquare; but in other 
refpefts is like the former. The eighth and ninth 
.coins P. II. T. 48. of the Pembroke collection, 
(7) Eifenfchmid. p. 44. 
(8) See Eifenfehmid’s figure, and c. 7. of P, II. T. 48. of the 
.Pembroke colle«dion. 
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