- 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...
-
senator also had to meet a
minimum property requirement of 1
million sestertii. Not all men who
qualified for the ordo
senatorius chose to take a Senate...
- Seneca's tragedies. In addition, he was the
author of
Commentarius de
sestertiis (1643) and of an
edition of Hugo Grotius's De jure
belli et
pacis (1660)...
-
Seneca had
acquired a vast
personal fortune of
three hundred million sestertii by
charging high
interest on
loans throughout Italy and the provinces...
- 2 gold
quinarii = 25
silver denarii = 50
silver quinarii = 100
bronze sestertii = 200
bronze dupondii = 400
copper ****es = 800
copper semisses = 1,600...
- denarii.
Following his ********ination in 44 BC, Caesar's will left 300
sestertii (or 75 denarii) to each citizen. Trajan,
emperor of Rome from 98 to 117...
- portraits.
Jones estimates Domitian's
annual income at more than 1.2
billion sestertii, of
which over one-third
would presumably have been
spent maintaining...
-
manual labour.
Legionaries received 225
denarii a year (equal to 900
sestertii)
until Domitian, who
increased it to 300 denarii. In
spite of the steady...
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currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make
Roman dupondii and
sestertii. The
uniform use of br**** for
coinage and
military equipment across the...
- years, was gone (1
pound of gold = 40 gold
aurei = 1,000
denarii = 4,000
sestertii).[citation needed] This
currency had
almost no
value by the end of the...
