A dictionary of Greek and Roman . thunderbolt on one side, and a dolphin with a strigilabove it on the other. Its weight is 1571 grains. AS. ASCOLIASMUS. 141 The quadmns or teruncius, the fourth part ofthe as, or piece of three ounces, has three balls todenote its value. An open hand, a strigil, a dol-phin, grains of corn, a star, heads of Hercules,Ceres, &c, are common devices on this coin. Pliny(H. N. xxxiii. 3. s. 13) says that both the triensand quadrans bore the image of a ship. Thesextans, the sixth part of the as, or piece of twoounces, bears two balls. In the annexed spec
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . thunderbolt on one side, and a dolphin with a strigilabove it on the other. Its weight is 1571 grains. AS. ASCOLIASMUS. 141 The quadmns or teruncius, the fourth part ofthe as, or piece of three ounces, has three balls todenote its value. An open hand, a strigil, a dol-phin, grains of corn, a star, heads of Hercules,Ceres, &c, are common devices on this coin. Pliny(H. N. xxxiii. 3. s. 13) says that both the triensand quadrans bore the image of a ship. Thesextans, the sixth part of the as, or piece of twoounces, bears two balls. In the annexed specimen,from the British Museum, there is a caduceus andstrigil on one side, and a cockle-shell on the weight is 779 The uncia, one ounce piece, or twelfth of the as,is marked by a single ball. There appear on thiscoin heads of Pallas, of Roma, and of Diana, ships,frogs, and ears of barley. (For other devices, seeEckhel, Doctr. Num. Vet.) After the reduction in the weight of the as,coins were struck of the value of 2, 3, 4, and even10 ases, which were called respectively dussis ordupo?idius, tressis, quudrussis, and decussis. Othermultiples of the as were denoted by words of similarformation, up to centussis, 100 ases ; but most ofthem do not exist as coins. It is a very remarkable fact that, while theduodecimal division of the as prevailed among thenations of Italy south of the Apennines, the deci-mal division was in use to the north of that chain ;so that, of the former nations no quincunx has beendiscovered, of the latter no semis. In Sicily thetwo systems were mixed. [Pondera.] For furtherdetails respecting the coinage of the other Italianstates, see Bbckh, Metrot. Untersuch. § 27 ; Abeken,J\Ii
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