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2. Talent (measurement) - Wikipedia

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   In Homer's poems, it is always used of gold and is thought to have been quite a small weight of about 8.5 grams (0.30 oz), approximately the same as the later gold stater coin or Persian daric. In later times in Greece, it represented a much larger weight, approximately 3,000 times as much: an Attic talent was approximately 26.0 kilograms (57 ...

3. Guinea (coin) - Wikipedia

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   The first guinea was produced on 6 February 1663 (361 years ago) (); a proclamation of 27 March 1663 made the coins legal currency.One troy pound of 11 ⁄ 12 (0.9133) [citation needed] fine gold (22 carat or 0.9167 pure by weight) would make 44 + 1 ⁄ 2 guineas, [5] each thus theoretically weighing 129.438 grains (8.385 grams crown gold, 7.688 grams fine gold, or 0.247191011 ozt (troy ounces ...

4. Stater - Wikipedia

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   (The reason being that one gold stater generally weighed roughly 8.5 g (0.27 ozt), twice as much as a drachma, while the parity of gold to silver, after some variance, was established as 1:10). The use of gold staters in coinage seems mostly of Macedonian origin. The best known types of Greek gold staters are the 28-drachma kyzikenoi from Cyzicus.

5. Deben (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The inscribed value is of 3 deben, representing a unit of 29 grams (1.0 oz), likely the earliest copper deben. [2] Based on this evidence, it was argued recently that copper and gold deben were used since Early Dynastic Period in ancient Egypt. [3]

6. Dram (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The Attic Greek drachma (δραχμή) was a weight of 6 obols, 1 ⁄ 100 Greek mina, or about 4.37 grams. [11] The Roman drachma was a weight of 1 ⁄ 96 Roman pounds, or about 3.41 grams. [12] [13] A coin weighing one drachma is known as a stater, drachm, or drachma.

7. GOLD - Wikipedia

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   Gold, a chemical element; Genomes OnLine Database; Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity; GOLD (parser), an open-source parser-generator of BNF-based grammars; Graduates of the Last Decade, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers program to garner more university level student members