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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8231084, member: 19463&quot;]Many coins were marked in some way.&nbsp; This Nero dupondius is marked in exergue II (asses).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447024[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Early silver of Syracuse included fractions like the later Roman bronzes with a system based on twelfths.&nbsp; Two dots was a 2/12 hexas (1/6 litra).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447026[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>6 dots was 6/12 (hemilitron)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447025[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Many provincials had a denomination in assaria.&nbsp; Common is this is E for 5.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447027[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>More unusual is 1 1/2 assaria (&gt;A)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447028[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know who was first and also might ask who first used a word for a denomination along with the number.&nbsp; Some Chinese cash did this as on this Wu Zhu.&nbsp; Wu Zhu literally means &quot;five zhu&quot;.&nbsp; It was not the first Chinese coin to do this but I don&#039;t know how many there were before that. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447037[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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