Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Denarius

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. 

DENA'RIUS. The principal silver coin of the Romans, which originally contained ten asses, subsequently increased to sixteen, when the weight of the as had been reduced; worth about 8½d. of our money. It bore various devices: the head of Jupiter, of the twin brothers Castor and Pollux, of the goddess Roma, with a helmet, and a two or four-horse chariot on the reverse, similar to the example (Denarius/1.1) annexed, from an original of the actual size.

2. Denarius aureus. A gold coin of the same name, equal to twenty-five silver denarii. (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 13.) This piece was not of very common use; but a specimen (Denarius/2.1) struck under Augustus is here introduced in its actual state.

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  Denarius/1.1
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  Denarius/2.1