Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mensularii

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. 

MENSULA'RII. A class of the public bankers or mensarii; and as the name is formed from a diminutive, mensula, we may suppose them to have held a lower rank, and to have been of an inferior grade. They acted in the capacity of money changers, providing Roman coinage for the foreign pieces brought into the country by strangers; and also were appointed to examine all kinds of money, and decide if it was genuine or forged. Tac. Ann. vi. 17. Dig. 16. 3. 7. Id. 42. 5. 24. Id. 46. 3. 39.