| FIG. | PAGE | |
| 1. | Cowrie Shell | 13 |
| 2. | Wampum | 14 |
| 3. | Al-li-ko-chik | 15 |
| 4. | Burmese silver shell money | 22 |
| 5. | Chinese hoe money | 23 |
| 6. | Fish-hook money | 28 |
| 7. | Siamese silver bullet money | 29 |
| 8. | Silvered brass bars | 30 |
| 9. | Rings found in the tombs of Mycenae | 37 |
| 10. | Gold rings found in Ireland | 38 |
| 11. | West African axe money | 40 |
| 12. | Old Calabar copper-wire formerly used as money | 41 |
| 13. | Irish bronze fibulae and West African manillas | 42 |
| 14. | Ancient British Coins | 93 |
| 15. | Barbarous imitation of Drachm of Massalia | 111 |
| 16. | Gold Stater of Philip of Macedon | 125 |
| 17. | Persian Daric | 126 |
| 18. | Gold Stater of Diodotus of Bactria | 126 |
| 19. | Egyptian wall painting showing the weighing of gold rings | 128 |
| 20. | Regenbogenschüssel | 140 |
| 21. | Chinese knife money | 157 |
| 22. | Egyptian Five-Kat weight | 240 |
| 23. | Lion weight | 245 |
| 24. | Assyrian Duck weight | 245 |
| 25. | Weights in the form of Sheep | 271 |
| 26. | Coin of Salamis in Cyprus | 272 |
| 27. | Bull’s-head Five-shekel Weight | 283 |
| 28. | Lydian Electrum Coin | 295 |
| 29. | Coin of Croesus | 298 |
| 30. | Coin of Eretria | 306 |
| 31. | Coin of Cyrene with Silphium plant | 313 |
| 32. | Coin of Cyzicus with tunny fish | 316 |
| 33. | Coins of Olbia in the form of tunny fish | 317 |
| 34. | Coin of Tenedos with double-headed axe | 318 |
| 35. | Coin of Phanes, earliest known inscribed coin | 320 |
| 36. | Archaic Coin of Samos | 321 |
| 37. | Coin of Cnidus | 321 |
| 38. | Coin of Thurii | 322 |
| 39. | Coin of Rhoda in Spain | 322 |
| 40. | Tetradrachm of Athens | 325 |
| 41. | Vase from Cyrene, showing the weighing of the Silphium | 326 |
| 42. | Coin of Metapontum | 327 |
| 43. | Coin of Croton | 328 |
| 44. | Tortoise of Aegina | 328 |
| 45. | Coin of Boeotia with Shield | 331 |
| 46. | Coin of Lycia | 332 |
| 47. | Coin of Messana | 336 |
| 48. | Aes Rude | 355 |
| 49. | Bronze Decussis, with figure of Cow | 356 |
| 50. | As (Aes grave) | 361 |
| 51. | As (semi-uncial) | 362 |
| 52. | As, 3rd Cent. A.D. (Third Brass) | 362 |
| 53. | Didrachm of Corinth | 362 |
| 54. | Sesterce of First Roman Silver coinage | 363 |
| 55. | Didrachm of Tarentum | 364 |
| 56. | Romano-Campanian coin | 377 |
| 57. | Victoriatus | 377 |
| 58. | Sextans (aes grave) | 379 |
| 59. | Gold Solidus of Julian the Apostate | 384 |
| 60. | Tremissis of Leo I. | 385 |
About This Book
The work uses comparative and inductive methods to trace how societies developed metallic money and weight standards, surveying primitive currencies, the distribution and early discovery of gold, and prehistoric trade routes. It argues that weighing technology first served gold and that many ancient weight units correspond to values like cattle, explaining origins of early Greek coin types and units such as the obol, litra, mina, and talent. Regional systems from China and further Asia to Egypt, Babylon, Lydia, Greece, Italy, and Rome are examined, with critical reassessment of older metrological and linguistic theories.