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en-wikipedia-org-9675		Sestertius - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2183	212	65	The sestertius (plural sestertii), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an ancient Roman coin. The name sestertius means "two and one half", referring to its nominal value of two and a half asses (a bronze Roman coin, singular as), a value that was useful for commerce because it was one quarter of a denarius, a coin worth ten asses. English-language sources routinely use the original Latin form sestertius, plural sestertii; but older literature frequently uses sesterce, plural sesterces, terce being the English equivalent of tertius. This is why the half-sestertius, the dupondius, was around the same size and weight as the bronze was, but was worth two asses. By the 260s and 270s the main unit was the double-denarius, the Antoninianus, but by then these small coins were almost all bronze. As a result of ceasing production and withdrawals from circulation in the 4th century, sestertii are less common as a whole compared to other Roman bronze coins.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9675.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9675.txt