- The
sestertius (pl.: sestertii) or
sesterce (pl.:
sesterces) was an
ancient Roman coin.
During the
Roman Republic it was a small,
silver coin
issued only...
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Short Film
Competition Sesterce d’or — Best
medium length film Jury
Prize — Most
innovative medium length film
Special Mention Sesterce d’argent — Best short...
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kilometres (12 mi) from Rome. He gave his
soldiers a
donative of a
thousand sesterces (250 denarii) each, and
raised the
annual wage for a
soldier in the legions...
- the
civil wars, to po****r dismay. The
soldiers were each
given 24,000
sesterces (a lifetime's
worth of pay);
further games and
celebrations were put on...
- (English "
sesterces",
symbolized as HS) was the
basic unit of
reckoning value into the 4th century,
though the
silver denarius,
worth four
sesterces, was also...
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raised the
annual pay of an
average legionary from 2000
sesterces (500 denarii) to 2700–3000
sesterces (675–750 denarii). He
lavished many
benefits on the...
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spent on the army; he had
greatly increased their pay from 2,000
sesterces to 3,000
sesterces per year. The
increased expenditures forced Caracalla to strip...
- For each
appearance in the arena, he
charged the city of Rome a
million sesterces,
straining the
Roman economy.
Commodus was also
known for
fighting exotic...
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History that
Cleopatra once
dissolved a
pearl worth tens of
millions of
sesterces in
vinegar just to win a dinner-party bet. The
accusation that Antony...
- donativum. This donative, however, was
twice the size of
those past: 20,000
sesterces (5,000 denarii) per capita, with more to officers. In
return for this...
