We have now taken a survey of the most ancient gold standards we can find throughout the wide regions through which the common system of weights of after years prevailed, extending in our range from the heart of Asia to the shores of the Atlantic.
Our results will best be seen in the following table:
| Grains. | |
|---|---|
| Egyptian gold ring standard | 127 |
| Mycenaean | 130-5 |
| Homeric talent (or “Ox-unit”) | 130-5 |
| Attic gold stater (the sole standard for gold) | 135 |
| Thasos | 135 |
| Rhodes | 135 |
| Cyzicus | 130 |
| Hebrew standard | 130 |
| Persian Daric | 130 |
| Macedonian stater | 135 |
| Bactrian stater | 130-2 |
| Indian standard (7th cent. A.D. ) | 140 |
| Phoenician gold unit (double) | 260 |
| Carthaginian | 120 |
| Sicily and Lower Italy | 130-5 |
| Etruscan | 130-5 |
| Gaulish unit | 120 |
| German | 120 |