Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sestertius

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. 

SESTER'TIUS. A Roman coin, worth two asses and a half, the fourth part of a denarius, and equal in value to a fraction more than two pence of our money. It belonged originally to the silver coinage; but subsequently was made of the metal called aurichalcum, a very fine quality of brass. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 2.) The example (Sestertius/1.1) is from an original of silver, and of the actual size; but specimens in the latter metal are much larger.

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