Definition

• The general term for leaden coins or tokens, but specially used for those struck by the ancients.

  Plautus, in his Trinummo , says: "Cui si capitis sit nummum credam plumbeum." Some writers apply the name to imitations of the Denarii of the Consular and Imperial series.

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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