Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 34
and six of thesewere as many as a man could grasp in his hand. Hence six obolimade one drachma (a handful), and thus originated the coinsobolus and drachma, the latter being to this day the coin of Greece,and having given its name to weights and measures in all thelanguages of the civilized world.… … COINS OF IONIA AND LYDIA. rodotus ascribes it to trie Lydians, but his authority is not con-clusive. The oldest coins extant, and probably the first coins evermade, are from Ionia, in Asia Minor. Miletus, a city south ofEphesus, on the shore of the Icarian Sea, probably produced thefirst coined…
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