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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2143989, member: 19463&quot;]I agree this is a good question and one I do not understand.&nbsp; I wonder sometimes if the sestertius was convenient as a measure because it was 1/100th of the standard gold aureus.&nbsp; I also do not know just how great of a number of surviving texts actually stated values in sestertii as opposed to them being translated that way by early English scholars trying to make it clear to their readers how much something cost.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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