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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 3075403, member: 74712&quot;]In my adventures with finding a good font for medieval texts (MUFI to the rescue, with directions to unicode if anyone is interested...) I stumbled on to the addition of Roman symbols for coins that have been included.&nbsp; I have no idea if these were actually used, or of how much use they would be for people here, but I thought I would share just in case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here they are, to test if they work in Cointalk: </p><p><br /></p><p>10190, Sextans:</p><p>10191, Uncia:</p><p>10192, Semiuncia:</p><p>10193, Sextula:</p><p>10194, Dimidia Sextula:</p><p>10195, Siliqua:</p><p>10196, Denarius:</p><p>10197, Quinarius:</p><p>10198, Sestertius:</p><p>10199, Dupondius:</p><p>1019A, As:</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll add that as I have typed these, they appear on my screen. I do not know how this appears to others if it is in fact a part of all unicode or just the unicode font.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, just what do the symbols mean?&nbsp; I could hazard a guess, but this is certainly not my area.&nbsp; It seems quite obvious that Denarius is the symbols for ten (X) with a line through, and Quinarius the same for five (V).&nbsp; As I pull out my copy of Sayles&#039; <i>Ancient Coin Collecting III</i>, these symbols seemed to be based off of the As for the Republic after 211 B.C., and are shown on many of the coins illustrated.&nbsp; So this calls for another chart...</p><p><br /></p><p>Semiuncia: (1/24, I have no clue why this symbol)</p><p>Uncia: (1/12, no clue why it is a horizontal line)</p><p>Sextans: (1/6, or twice the Uncia, and hence twice the lines?)</p><p>As: (1, or I)</p><p>Dupondius: (2, or II)</p><p>Sestertius: (2.5, II and a &#039;semi&#039;)</p><p>Quinarius: (5, or V)</p><p>Denarius: (10, or X)</p><p><br /></p><p>Siliqua: (no clue...&nbsp; but this reminds be of the &#039;thousands&#039; symbol.&nbsp; To my knowledge, Siliqua were issued much later)</p><p>Sextula: (?&nbsp; In latin it is &quot;lesser,&quot; but lesser than what?&nbsp; An As?)</p><p>Dimidia Sextula: (?&nbsp; I would image half a sextula)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, forgive my ramblings.&nbsp; If anyone have any coins with these symbols on them, please post away!&nbsp; or, enlighten me if you have more information behind the symbols.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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