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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Trebellianus, post: 4830836, member: 91569&quot;]By the time of the later empire it seems like many transactions were handled by way of sealed bags containing conventional amounts of coins -- such a bag was known to the Romans as the <i>follis</i> (the use of this word to refer to individual coins is a long-established error, as I understand it).</p><p><br /></p><p>On one of the mosaics at the Villa Romana del Casale we see two sealed bags labelled [ATTACH=full]1168398[/ATTACH] which is taken to be an abbreviation of 12,500 denarii -- i.e. 12,500 denarii worth of base-metal or silver coins. Presumably the former.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1168400[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>We see a few labelled bags in the <i>Chronography of 354</i> as well:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1168402[/ATTACH] <b>∞</b> = 1,000</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1168403[/ATTACH] <b>∞CCCC</b> = 400,000(?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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