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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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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