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The first public stamps of this kind that were affixed to
the current metals, seem in many cases to have been intended to
ascertain, what it was both most difficult and most important to
ascertain, the goodness or fineness of the metal, and to have
resembled the sterling mark which is at present affixed to plate
and bars of silver, or the Spanish mark which is sometimes
affixed to ingots of gold, and which being struck only upon one
side of the piece, and not covering the whole surface, ascertains
the fineness, but not the weight of the metal. Abraham weighs to
Ephron the four hundred shekels of silver which he had agreed to
pay for the field of Machpelah. They are said, however, to be the
current money of the merchant, and yet are received by weight and
not by tale, in the same manner as ingots of gold and bars of
silver are at present. The revenues of the ancient Saxon kings of
England are said to have been paid, not in money but in kind,
that is, in victuals and provisions of all sorts. William the
Conqueror introduced the custom of paying them in money. This
money, however, was, for a long time, received at the exchequer,
by weight and not by tale.

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