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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