official name was apparently nummus, although it has until recently been known among numismatists as the follis. The term nummus is now usually applied solely...
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Maternus Clodius Nummus. The inscription at Ephesus was set up by Lucius Stertinius Quitillianus etc. to his father Gaius Clodius C.f. Maec. Nummus, who died...
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round or oval-shaped itchy lesions. The name comes from the Latin word "nummus," which means "coin." Nummular dermatitis is characterized by chronic or...
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Latin, was first used in Pliny's Natural History in the phrase argenteus nummus (silver coin). The 4th-century historian Ammianus uses the same phrase,...
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The argenteus seems to have been set at 100 denarii, the silver-washed nummus at 25 denarii, and the bronze radiate at 4 or 5 denarii. The copper laureate...
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by Diocletian in about 294. The term "nummus" is now thought to be the actual ancient term, but usage of "nummus" has not caught on. At first the follis...
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Argenteus Nummus Copper Radiate Laureate Denarius Late Empire Gold Solidus Tremissis Silver Miliarense Siliqua Copper and bronze Follis Nummus Constantinian...
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Argenteus Nummus Copper Radiate Laureate Denarius Late Empire Gold Solidus Tremissis Silver Miliarense Siliqua Copper and bronze Follis Nummus Constantinian...
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coinage system which consisted of the gold solidus and the bronze nummi. The nummus was an extremely small bronze coin, at about 8–10 mm, weight of 0.56 g making...
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issued his Edict on Coinage, an act re-tariffing all debts so that the nummus, the most common coin in circulation, would be worth half as much. In the...
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