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DENARIUS. - This well-known Roman coin derived its name from ten asses (a denis assibus), weighing a pound each, for which it used to be exchanged at the time when silver first began to be coined at Rome, namely, 269 B.C. (A.U.C.485).

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DENARIUS. - This well-known Roman coin derived its name from its value of ten asses (a denis assibus) when it replaced the quadrigatus at the time when the old cast aes grave coinage finally gave way to the new struck bronze coins circa 211 B.C.

Around 141 B.C., the denarius was retarrifed at sixteen asses and retained this value into Imperial times.