The sestertius was produced as the largest brass denomination until the late 3rd century AD. Augustus tariffed the value of the sestertius as one hundredth of the gold aureus. In or about 23 BC, with the coinage reform of Augustus, the sestertius was reintroduced as a large brass denomination, while the as, now made of copper, was worth one quarter of a sestertius.
A modern shorthand for values in sestertii is IIS (Unicode 𐆘), in which the Roman numeral II is followed by S for semis, and the whole struck through but because this symbol and striking through letters are not always convenient, HS may be used instead, with the horizontal bar of the 'H' representing the strike through the numeral II, rather than the letter H.
Roman coins value full#
The name is derived from semis, "half" and "tertius", "third", in which "third" refers to the third as: the sestertius was worth two full asses and half of a third.Įnglish-language sources routinely use the original Latin form sestertius, plural sestertii but older literature frequently uses sesterce, plural sesterces, terce being the English equivalent of tertius. 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 denarius, a coin worth ten asses. During the Roman Empire it was a large brass coin. During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions.
The sestertius (plural sestertii), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an ancient Roman coin. JSTOR ( October 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭioscuri riding right, ROMA in linear frame below.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
This article needs additional citations for verification.
0 kommentar(er)
