Définition

• A name given to the earliest Roman gold coin, issued about B.C. 206.

  It was originally a silver weight of eighteen grains in the Roman computation, and later was admitted to the monetary system. There are three values worth respectively twenty, forty, and sixty Sesterces. It was succeeded by the Aureus.

La source

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

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