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to the weights of Alexander’s Tetradrachms, that we 
cannot doubt of the equality of his ftandard to that 
of Athens. And the gold Philippics of him and his 
father are fo corre<flly fized, and fo perfect, that the 
mean Didrachm derived from them, of 133 Troy 
grains, muft be very near its juft weight ; and its half, 
66§, that of the Attic Drachm. 
§ II. Of the Eginean and Eubdic Talents. 
THE Attic was not the only money-talent 
ufed in Greece. Hiftorians and others mention the 
Eginean and the Euboic Talents. The former 
weighed 10000 Attic Drachms, but, like other Talents,, 
contained only 6000 of its own j which being fo 
much heavier than the Attic, the Athenians called it 
'ss'ct^sioiv or the thick drachm This 
Talent was ul'ed at Corinth, as appears by a paftage in 
A. Gellius, where the Corinthian Talent is valued at 
10000 Attic drachms (2): and as Corinth was a 
place of great trade, it was probably ufed in moft of 
the cities of the Peloponnefus. 
If the Attic Drachm weighed 66 1 Troy grains, the 
Eginean fhould weigh 1104.; which, to avoid frac- 
tions, and becaufe our Attic Drachm is rather under- 
fized than otherwife, I fhall call in. 
There are Macedonian coins, (truck before Philip 
coined gold, that anfwer to this ftandard. One of 
Philip, in the Pembrokecolletion, weighs 224 grains, 
(1) See Pollux, L. IX. c. 6. § 86 and 76. 
(2) A. Gellius, L. I. c. 8. 
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