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Numbers measure coynes./ [top right corner: 73]

[column 1] Apud Athenienses valet obolis 6 cerates 7 teruncios mina 60 pars talenti, auri sescuplum. Talentium 60 minas. mina 100 drachmas. Drachma 6 obolos obolus 6 aereos aereus 7 minuta.

Limits a pointe of a line, a line of a sup[er]ficies a superficies of a body. parasanges 30 furlonges League 3 miles A mile 8 furlonges A furlonge 125 paces A pace 5 foote A foote 12 Inches An Inche 3 barlycornes. medimnus 1 by 1/2. modius 3 gallons 7 pintes

Denaruis} Drachma} [the two lines set together] 7 ? ob. obolus ??q[^a] Sesertius ?ab q[^a] q. Assis q[^a}.9.c... 4 sestertii denarius 8 denarii an ounce 10 asses denarius 6 oboli drachma.

[column 2] valuation of Mettalls Greekes 1p[ar]t golde for 10 silver sometimes for 12. Darius 1 talent of gold for 13 silver Germaynes antiently 13[p]ates & 1/2 silver, then 12 parts & now 11 p[ar]te 4/3 First price of metalls golde 2 silver 3 quicksilver and 4 tynne. 143 p[ar]ts bar bought for on parte of silver. Brasse 220 pts for 1 silver black lead 880 pts. Iron 1282 partes. Decies sestertiu' decies centena HS mille sestertiu' Ide.

[nb: these are obsolete roman numerals. Please do not edit this section until and unless you actually understand what the reverse C actually means. It is not a J. It is not an I. Please leave in place. I transcribed it correctly once. It was overwritten, incorrectly. Ↄ is defined in unicode as "ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED. ] IↃ vel D 500

[infinity symbol] 1000 CIↃ IↃↃ V[with line above]IↃↃ}4000


IↃↃ CIↃ 6000 IↃↃ 5000 CCIↃↃ 10000 CCIↃↃ CIↃ IↃↃ 14000 CCIↃↃ CCIↃↃ IↃ CIↃ 26000 CCIↃↃ IↃↃↃ 40000 IↃↃↃ 50000 CCIↃↃ CCIↃↃ CCCIↃↃↃ vel XX[with line above] 80000. CCCIↃↃↃ 100000.