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By other enactments he rendered it impossible to make money in unfair ways. In the first place the system of coinage that he established was of such a kind that even a sum of ten minae1 could not be brought into a house without the master and the servants being aware of it: the money would fill a large space and need a wagon to draw it.
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1 Some 40 pounds [about the year 1925].
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.
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