Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

Of the Asiaticke siluer.

THe Asiaticke money was of lesse valuations, and other de∣nominations than the rest of Greece; for the greatest of their siluer Coyne that was vsually currant, was but ten pence: and it was called by the name Siglus, which was worth seuen Atticke Obulus and a halfe, as Xenophon saith: but as Hesychius saith, it was worth eight Attick Obulus, and foure scruples, which is 10. d. in our money.

Cistophorus was also Asiatick siluer, and was so called,* 1.1 because of the image that was vpon it: and was worth of our money 4 d. ob. c.

Danaces, which piece of mony the Graecians vsually put into the mouth of the dead, to pay Charon for their passage to Elisium war worth ob. q. and two third parts of a farthing.

They had but two sorts of brasse money,* 1.2 that is mentioned to continue currant among them; and they were Aereolum and Minutum.

Aereolum was worth the sixth part of an Atticke Obulus, ac∣cording to the opinion of Suidas and others, which in our money is q. c. and one third part of a mite.

Minutum, is the seuenth part of that, which is little more than halfe a mite.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lucian in Ca∣ront. Suid. loi. allegat Hesych. in.
• * 1.2

  Of the Brasse money among the Graecians.