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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2172801, member: 19463&quot;]Where did you get the idea they switched back?&nbsp; After a period of honestly in labeling they stopped marking 16 and used the X to mean denarius whatever the exchange in asses.&nbsp; I always thought it interesting that they continued to use &#039;sestertius&#039; or 2 1/2 to mean the coin worth twice the dupondius which means 2 pounder.&nbsp; Of course we continue to call our months September (7th), October (8th), November (9th) and December (10th) long after adding two months (July and August) pushed them up two positions.&nbsp; Names of familiar objects last longer than the meanings that caused them to be what they were in the beginning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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