Definizione

• A Roman silver coin, orig- inally issued about B.C. 228, and intended principally for foreign commerce. The Victoriati bore on the obverse a head of Jupiter, and on the reverse a figure of Vic- tory crowning a trophy, from which the name is derived. Its weight and value was three fourths of the Denarius, and equal to the Drachm of Illyricum.

  In B.C. 104 the Victoriatus was coined of half the weight of the Denarius and thus took the place of the obsolete Quin- arius. It therefore bore, as the mark of value, the letter Q from this time on.

Fonte

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

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