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161 A. Cunningham —Belies from Ancient Persia. 
two, 9,880 plus 4,680, is exactly 14,560 talents as stated by Herodotus. 
As it is important to establish the correctness of the rate of 13 
silver to 1 gold as noted by Herodotus, I append here the details of the 
sums actually paid into the Persian treasury. 
Satrapies — Talents. 
No. I.—400 
II.—500 
III—360 
IV.—360—(500 less 140 for cavalry not paid into Treasury.) 
V.—350 
VI.—700 
VII.—170 
VIII.—300 
IX.—1000 
X.—450 
XI.—200 
XII.—360 
XIII. —400 
XIV. —600 
XV.—250 
XVI.—300 
XVII.—400 
XVIII.—200 
XIX.—300 
7,600 Babylonian talents of 78 Attic mime 
equal to 9.880 Euboic talents, of 60 Attic minse 
at 13 to 10—•—so 7,600 x Ar — 9,880 Euboic talents of silver 
Add XXth satrapy 360 gold x 13 = silver 4,680 
which gives a total of 14,560 Euboic talents of silver 
exactly as stated by Herodotus. 
The next fact regarding Persian money we get from Xenophon, who 
states that the talent was equal to 300 Darics, and the siglos was equal to 
7i Attic oboli. # Taking the Attic drachma at 67*2 English grains and the 
obolus at 11 ‘2 grains, the weight of the siglos , or Persian silver coin, would 
received by Darius. The actual total of silver payments was therefore only 7,6C0 
talents, as I have stated above. 
* Xenoph., Anab., I— 'O 5e JUiyAos dvyarai inra ofioAovs nui r)y.iofi6Aiov, 
