Appendix C 394

Index 407

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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