3><span class="mw-headline" id="Weight">Weight</span></h3>
<p>The <b>talent</b> was a measure of weight used for large amounts of coinage (bullion, bulk coin), rather than an individual coin. Seven <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonian</a> talents equalled ten Attic talents, according to a list of the revenues of <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II of Persia)</a> recorded in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He