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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3549332, member: 74282&quot;]Many(probably most) scholars are of the pretty firm belief that at this time the unit of account was the as. Exactly when the unit of account became the sestertius, however is highly debated and is a topic that has been debated over the years much like the date of the introduction of the denarius. Some scholars believe that the sestertius became the unit of reckoning around the time of the retariffing of the denarius to 16 asses circa 141 B.C., others place it much later. I believe Roberto Russo in his paper on the retariffing in Essays Russo places it much later, sometime in the 1st century B.C.. It&#039;s a topic I still don&#039;t have a firm opinion on myself but it&#039;s on the short list of topics I&#039;d like to learn more about in the near future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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