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elmals, which, divided by looo, give 4o,c_58, or 
above lo pence and half a farthing for the value of 
Conftantine s Miliarenfis in Englifh money. 
Conflantinopolitans kept their accounts in 
Solidi, which are reduced to pounds Sterling, by muU 
number by 58648, and cutting 
oft five figures on the right hand for decimals. 
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Conclusion. 
THE Greeks had no money at the time of the 
Trojan war 5 for Homer reprefents them as traffick- 
ing by barter (i), and Priam (an Afiatic) weighs out 
the ten talents of gold, which he takes to ranlom his 
fon’s body of Achilles (2). 
This ponderal Talent was very fmall, as appears 
from Homer’s defeription of the Games at the Fune- 
ral of Patroclus, where two Talents of gold are pro- 
pofed as an inferior prize to a=mare with foal of a mule.. 
Whence I conclude it was the fame that the Doriam 
Colonies carried to Sicily and Calabria ; for Pollux 
tells us,» from Ariftotle, that the ancient Talent of 
the Greeks in Sicily contained ’24 Nummi, each of 
which weighing an Obole and a half, the Talent 
muft have weighed fix Attic Drachms, or three 
Darics ; and Pollux elfewhere mentions fuch a Ta-- 
lent of gold. But the Daric weighed very little more 
tl^n 'Our Gmneaj and if 2 Talents weighed: 
about 6 Guineas, vve may reckon the mare with foal-: 
worth 1,2. j which was no improbable price,, fmee.- 
