CHAPTER XI. The Lydian and Persian Systems.

grs. each, “as now for the first time coined.” These gold coins bear as obverse the foreparts of a lion and a bull facing each other, and on the reverse an oblong incuse divided into two parts (Fig. 29). Of the Babylonian standard we find:

Stater	168	grs.
Trite	56	”
Hecte	28	”
Hemihecton	14	”

And of the light shekel:

Stater	126	grs.
Trite	42	”
Hecte	21	”
Hemihecton	11	”

Of Babylonian standard silver:

Stater	168	grs.
½ stater	84	”
⅓ stater	56	”
⅟₁₂ stater	14	”

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