Crossword-Solution: SOLIDUS 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Majorian gives currency to all gold coin, excepting only the Gallic solidus, from its deficiency, not in the weight, but in the standard.] The spectator who casts a mournful view over the ruins of ancient Rome, is tempted to accuse the memory of the Goths and Vandals, for the mischief which they had neither leisure, nor power, nor perhaps inclination, to perpetrate.

But as the Franks established only a decuple proportion of gold and silver, ten shillings will be a sufficient valuation of their solidus of gold.

Twelve of these denarii made a solidus, or shilling, the twentieth part of the ponderal and numeral livre, or pound of silver, which has been so strangely reduced in modern France.

Hence the verse:— "They name us Al-A'rбb but Al-'Urb is our name." [FN#460] I would remind the reader that the Dinбr is the golden denarius (or solidus) of Eastern Rome while the Dirham is the silver denarius, whence denier, danaro, dнnheiro, etc., etc.

There is the solidus, child; and you may take my word for it as a man of experience: whatever you undertake will prosper.