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Denarius, the chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventh part of a Roman ounce; also an English penny. The denarius was first coined five years before the first Punic war, 269 B.C. in later times a coppr coin was called denarius, Smith's Dict. Antiq....
Denarius Dei
Denarius Dei, God's penny, or earnest given and received by parties to contracts, etc., paid in former times to the church or poor....
Denarius tertius comitatus
Denarius tertius comitatus, a third part or penny of the fines and other profits of the county Court, which was paid to the earl of the county, the other two parts being reserved to the Crown, Paroch. Antiq. 418....
Denarius
A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents the ldquopennyrdquo of the New Testament so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as...
Sesterce
A Roman coin or denomination of money in value the fourth part of a denarius and originally containing two asses and a half afterward four asses equal to about two pence sterling or four cents...
Sterling
Sterling, genuine; money; standard-rate, Derived from the Easterlins who came to England from Germany in the thirteenth century, and coined good money. See Skeat's Etymological Dictionary, where it is said that the term 'sterling was first applied to the English penny and then to standard current coin in general, and that Wedgewood cites from Ducange a Statute of Edward I., in which we met with 'denarius Angli', qui vocatur sterlingus.'' And see Co. Litt. 207 b, Harg. note (1)....
Third penny
Third penny. See DENARIUS TERTIUS COMITATUS....
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