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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Quadrans

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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. 

QUAD'RANS. A small copper coin, three ounces (unciae) in weight, and equal to a fourth part of the As in value. It is marked with three balls to designate the weight, accompanied with the device of an open hand, strigil, a dolphin, grains of corn, a star, the image of a ship, or the head of Hercules or Ceres; all of which are found on different specimens in various numismatic collections. (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 13. Hor. i. 3. 137. Mart. ii. 44.) The example (Quadrans/1.1) here introduced is from an original, weighing in its present stage 2 oz. 179 gr., and is drawn of one-third the actual size.

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    Quadrans/1.1

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