[7] Herod. v. c. 77 and vi. c. 79.
[8] The latest results of metrological research are most conveniently stated by Hultsch in his Die Gewichte des Alterthums nach ihrem Zusammenhange dargestellt, Leipzig, 1898. And Mr. F. G. Hill, of the British Museum, has recently issued an excellent hand-book of the Greek and Roman coins containing information on these points.
[9] The relation of the ancient Gallic gold currency to the subject of wergelds is interesting and important, but cannot be enlarged upon here.
[10] For the authorities for the following short statement see infra, Chap. VII. s. 1.
[11] Besides these silver tremisses some silver scripula were issued, but it is with the sceatts mainly that we have to do. In connection with the next section, however, the fact that the scripulum was current as a coin is worth notice.
[12] Metrologicorum Scriptorum Reliquiae (Lipsiae, 1866).
[13] Hultsch, Die Gewichte des Alterthums, pp. 53 and 203.
[14] Metr. Script. ii. 131-139.
[15] Hultsch, Metr. Script. i. pp. 66 and 87.
[16] Athelstan, vi. 6, s. 2 and vi. 3; and see Schmid’s Glossary under Geldrechnung.