BOOK VII.

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„ 9th =

„ 10th =

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2 semi-sextulae or four semi-sextulae.

1 semi-sextula or 3 units of 4 siliquae each.

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Coiners who mint silver also divide the bes of the lesser weights in the sameway as the greater weights; our people, indeed, divide it into sixteen sem-unciae, and the semuncia into eighteen units of four siliquae each.

There are ten weights which are placed in the other pan of the balance,when they weigh the silver which remains from the copper that has beenconsumed, when they assay the alloy with fire.

The 1st =16 semunciae = 1 bes.

„ 2nd =8

„ 3rd =4

„ 4th =2

„ 5th = 1 „ or 18 units of 4 siliquae each.

„ 6th — 9 units of 4 siliquae each.

„ 7th = 6

„ 8th = 3

9th = 210th == 1

The coiners of Nuremberg who mint silver, divide the bes into sixteen sem-unciae, but divide the semuncia into four drachmae, and the drachma intofour pfennige. They employ nine weights.

The 1st = 16 semunciae.

„ 2nd =8„ 3rd =4„ 4th =2„ 5th = T

For they divide the bes in the same way as our own people, but since theydivide the semuncia into four drachmae,

the 6th weight = 2 drachmae.

„ 7th ,, = 1 drachma or 4 pfennige.

„ 8th „ =2 pfennige.

„ 9th „ = 1 pfennig

The men of Cologne and Antwerp 43 divide the bes into twelve units of

five drachmae and one scripulum, which weights they call nummi. Eachof these they again divide into twenty-four units of four siliquae each,which they call grenlins. They have ten weights, of which

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