Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Q, Q, Quadrans

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Quadrans

(=teruncius). A Roman copper coin, a quarter of an as=3 unciae. (See As; Numismatics; Uncia.) The quadrans was the usual price paid for a bath. It was equivalent to about a quarter of a cent. The quadrans bore three balls to indicate the number of unciae, accompanied by an open hand, a dolphin, a strigil, a star, a head of Hercules or of Ceres, or a ship. The Greek term is τετρᾶς.

Quadrans. (Actual size.)

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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