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2. Sestertius - Wikipedia

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   During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions. During the Roman Empire it was a large brass coin. The name sestertius means "two and one half", referring to its nominal value of two and a half asses (a bronze Roman coin, singular as), a value that was useful for commerce because it was one quarter of a ...

3. Roman currency - Wikipedia

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   Roman currency names survive today in many countries via the Carolingian monetary system, such as the dinar (from the denarius coin), the British pound (a translation of the Roman libra, a unit of weight), the peso (also a translation of libra), and the words for the general concept of money in the Iberian Romance languages (e.g. Spanish dinero ...

4. Roman Republican currency - Wikipedia

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   Roman Republican currency is the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender.In modern times, the abbreviation RRC, "Roman Republican Coinage" originally the name of a reference work on the topic by Michael H. Crawford, has come to be used as an identifying tag for coins assigned a number in that work, such as RRC 367.

5. Denarius - Wikipedia

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   The basic copper coin, the as, was to weigh 1 Roman pound. This was a large cast coin, and subdivisions of the as were used. The "pound" (libra, etc.) continued to be used as a currency unit, and survives e.g. in the British monetary system, which still uses the pound, abbreviated as £. 211 BC: Introduction: 4.55 g: 95–98%: 1 ⁄ 72 pound.

6. Roman coin was buried for 2,000 years in Poland — until metal ...

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7. Rare Roman coin worth a small fortune on 'Pawn Stars' - AOL

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   The coin was a silver denarius that was struck, or made, in the last 24 days of Caligula's life, so this is a pretty old and rare coin that Rick said could be worth up to six figures. The ...