DECUSSIS
DECUSSIS ten asses, as a Roman coin a ten as piece, struck
after the reduction of the weight of the as, but rarely found. [As.] The
name occurs in the Lex Aternia Tarpeia, B.C. 454. (Varr.
L.
L. 5.170; Fest. p. 257, 20, M.;
Stat.
Silv. 4.9,
9; Marquardt,
Röm. Staatsverw. ii. p. 11.)
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