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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;savitale, post: 24550982, member: 95284&quot;]Sesterces were the basic unit. See, for example, a commemorative inscription set up in the public baths at Como, Pliny The Younger’s hometown:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; ... left by will public baths at a cost of… and an additional 300,000 sesterces for furnishing them, with interest on 200,000 for their upkeep. He also left to his city capital of 1,866,666 2/3 sesterces to support a hundred of his freedmen, and subsequently to provide an annual dinner for the people of the city. Likewise in his lifetime he gave 500,000 sesterces for the maintenance of boys and girls of the city, and also 100,000 for the upkeep of the library.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course that doesn&#039;t mean these were actually paid using the bronze coins we call sestertii. Presumably aurei, denarii, or other things valued at this number of sesterces were given as payment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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