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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3700577, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks Doug - I think I needed more than a full roll of nickles for a recent coffee.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My much faded high-school Latin doesn&#039;t get me very far either:&nbsp; <a href="http://216.129.112.202/loc/1285/1/0#0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://216.129.112.202/loc/1285/1/0#0" rel="nofollow">the text</a>.&nbsp; Is this the sentence where the libra-As connection comes from?</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>Prima divisio solidi [id est librae], quod as vocatur, in duas partes dimidias diducitur; pars dimidia semis vocatur; nota eius S. </i></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>The first division of the solidus [i.e. librae], which is called As, is divided into two halves, one half is called semis and its symbol is S.</i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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