{"id":869,"date":"2016-08-30T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/?page_id=869"},"modified":"2016-08-31T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T06:08:17","slug":"roman-coin-denominations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/roman-coin-denominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Coin Denominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Gold (Aureus)<\/td>\n<td>25 denarii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Silver (Denarius)<\/td>\n<td>6 asses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Silver (quinarius)<\/td>\n<td>8 asses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Orichalchum (sestertius)<\/td>\n<td>4 asses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Orichalchum (dupondius)<\/td>\n<td>2 asses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copper (as)<\/td>\n<td>4 quadrantes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Orichalchum (semis)<\/td>\n<td>2 quadrantes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copper quadrans<\/td>\n<td>1\/4 as<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In 294 under Diocletian, new denominations based on the Follis were used:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Gold Aureus<\/td>\n<td>24 argentii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Silver Argentius<\/td>\n<td>5 AE Follis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bronze follis<\/td>\n<td>5 antoninianus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bronze antoninianus<\/td>\n<td>2 denarii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>During the middle of the 300&#8217;s, the coinage was in turmoil. We do not know what the Romans called their coins during this time so we now call the bronze coinage names based upon size:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>AE1<\/td>\n<td>Larger than 25mm diameter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AE2<\/td>\n<td>from 21mm &#8211; 25mm diameter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AE3<\/td>\n<td>from 17mm &#8211; 21mm diameter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AE4<\/td>\n<td>under 17mm diameter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold (Aureus) 25 denarii Silver (Denarius) 6 asses Silver (quinarius) 8 asses Orichalchum (sestertius) 4 asses Orichalchum (dupondius) 2 asses Copper (as) 4 quadrantes Orichalchum (semis) 2 quadrantes Copper quadrans 1\/4 as In 294 under Diocletian, new denominations based on the Follis were used: Gold Aureus 24 argentii Silver Argentius 5 AE Follis Bronze follis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}