Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Collybus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COL'LYBUS (κόλλυβος). Properly, a Greek word, meaning a small coin; whence it came to signify, both amongst the Greeks and Romans, the difference of exchange, or agio, as it is called, charged by the dealer for changing the money of one country into the currency of another. Cic. Att. xii. 6. Id. Verr. ii. 3. 78.