Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scripulum

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. 

SCRI'PULUM or SCRU'PULUM. A scruple; the smallest gold coin of the Roman currency, weighing one-third of the denarius. (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 16.) It is distinguished by the head of Mars in a helmet, and an eagle with the word ROMA on the reverse, as in the example (Scripulum/1.1), from a specimen belonging to the Royal Library at Paris. The coin is extremely rare.

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  Scripulum/1.1