The law also provides that no private person shall have gold or silver, except a little coin for daily use, which will not pass current in other countries.

The state must also possess a common Hellenic currency, but this is only to be used in defraying the expenses of expeditions, or of embassies, or while a man is on foreign travels; but in the latter case he must deliver up what is over, when he comes back, to the treasury in return for an equal amount of local currency, on pain of losing the sum in question; and he who does not inform against an offender is to be mulcted in a like sum.

No money is to be given or taken as a dowry, or to be lent on interest.

The law will not protect a man in recovering either interest or principal.

All these regulations imply that the aim of the legislator is not to make the city as rich or as mighty as possible, but the best and happiest.