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DENARIUS. - This well-known coin of the Romans derived its appellation a denis assibus (from ten asses), for which it used to be exchanged, weighing a pound each, as they did at the time when silver first began to be coined at Rome, namely, 269 B.C. (A.U.C.485).

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DENARIUS. - This well-known coin of the Romans derived its appellation a denis assibus (from ten asses), for which it used to be exchanged, weighing a pound each, as they did at the time when silver first began to be coined at Rome, namely, 269 B.C. (A.U.C.485).