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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2144014, member: 19463&quot;]I still prefer the explanation that the unit of account was the sestertium which was short for millia sestertiorum and that the numbers you see as account had nothing to do with the coins.&nbsp; this article is both worthless and informative:</p><p><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Sestertius.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Sestertius.html" rel="nofollow">http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Sestertius.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The highlight is in the tinted box at the top where the writer puts down certain types of classicists and gives the four functions of arithmetic.&nbsp; I was a classics major in college and I met some of these guys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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