Denarius
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“The principal silver coin among the Romans, was so called because it was originally equal to ten asses; but on the reduction of the weight of the as, it was made equal to sixteen asses, except in military pay, in which it was still reckoned as equal to ten asses. The denarius was first coined five years before the first Punic war, B.C. 269” — Smith, 1873.
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William Smith, A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873) 114
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