# The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

Author: Ridgeway, William, 1853-1926

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66160

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## Summary

The object of this essay is to enquire into the origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards. Since August Boeckh in his metrological enquiries[1] put forth the idea that the weight standards of antiquity had been obtained scientifically, all subsequent writers with scarcely an exception have followed in the same path. This theory was undoubtedly suggested by the fact that the French Republic had established a new scientific metric system. Yet reflection might have shown scholars that even the French system was not a wholly independent outcome of science, for beyond doubt the _mètre_ and _litre_ and _hectare_ were only varieties of older measures of length, capacity and surface, then...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part I. The Archaic Inscriptions and the Greek Alphabet.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-metallic-currency-and-weight-standards-66160/chapters/3/index.md)