Crossword-Solution: ASES 4 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Next in rank to them were eighty centuries composed of persons owning property (not deducting debts) to the amount of one hundred thousand ases (_ćs_, copper, brass, bronze), and two centuries of persons not possessed of wealth, but simply _Fabrűm_, or workmen who manufactured things out of hard material, so important to the state were such considered at the time.

Two and a half ases were equal to a sestertius, and ten ases (or four sesterces) equalled one denarius, worth about sixteen cents.] was worth but about a cent and a half, and that a hundred thousand such coins would amount to only about fifteen hundred dollars; though, of course, we should have to make allowance for the price of commodities if we wished to arrive at the exact value in the money of our time.

The second, third, and fourth centuries were arranged on a descending grade of property qualification, and the fifth comprised those persons whose property was not worth less than twelve thousand five hundred ases, or about two hundred dollars.

They found copper in their soil and made a pound (_as_) of it their unit of value, but it was so cheap that ten thousand ases were required to buy a war horse, though cattle and sheep were much lower.

There were eighteen centuries of these knights, six patrician and twelve plebeian, all having more than one hundred thousand ases.