Crossword-Solution: SESTERTIUS
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| DENARIUS, fourth part of a | 1 answer |
| silver coin | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SESTERTIUS (5)
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.
Bronze _sestertius_ (5 cents) struck in Nero's reign; the emperor, who carries a spear, is followed by a second horseman bearing a banner.
Sestertius was a silver coin, stamped on one side with Castor and Pollux, and on the opposite with the city.
SESTERTIUS, ses-t[.e]r'shi-us, _n._ a Roman silver coin, a quarter denarius, worth 2½ asses: a brass coin under the Empire, worth 4 asses--also SES'TERCE:--_pl._ SESTER'TII.--_n._ SESTER'TIUM, a money of account equal to 1000 sestertii.
Copper gave place to silver as the standard of exchange, and therewith the copper _as_ depreciated in value, so that the Roman unit of historical times, the sestertius of 2½ _as_ value, was a coin worth about _2d._ Land was no longer the sole basis of property; it became possible for a man to become rich by trade, and accordingly landless citizens were now drafted into the ancient tribes for the first time.