nummi

We can more easily tell how old goldsmithery is, which means that sometimes people will melt down 'common' medieval gold coins like Byzantine nummi so as to have authentic gold with which to fake something much more valuable like an Anglo-Saxon shilling.

Staffordshire Hoard Carla 2009

Tulemuseks: efektne ja omajagu kööbakas ulmeosa, nummi ja samas väheköitev teismeliste armulugu, banaalselt paranoidne vandenõuteooria.

Jumper (2008) Ulmeguru 2009

Theban Crates flung of his own accord his money into the sea, abite nummi, ego vos mergam, ne mergar, a vobis, I had rather drown you, than you should drown me.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

It was hoped that finds, such as pottery and especially nummi (small late antique coins) from this deposit might provide some date for the abandonment of road maintenance.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 4 2003

That was too bulky; one gold solidus equalled about fourteen thousand nummi.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

That was too bulky; one gold solidus equalled about fourteen thousand nummi.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

As in the time of the Roman republic eighty-four denarii were coined out of one pound of silver, and twenty-five denarii (or 100 sesterces) constituted one Roman aureus, the amount of silver here mentioned is equivalent to 672,000 nummi aurei.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

In hac arca depositi sunt nummi tria millia et quingenti qui pertinent ad hanc Missionem de Sancto Fernando, in cujus finibus ad cautelam ob latrocinia hoc litore a piratis commissa haec arca abscondita est.

The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions J. Smeaton Chase

A Germanis, quos Angli_ Esterlings, _aborientali situ, vocarunt, facta est appellatio; quos_ Johannes _Rex, ad argentum in suam puritatem redigendam, primus evocavit; et ejus modi nummi_ Esterlingi, _in antiquis scripturis semper reperiuntur_.

Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

[159] _Sestertia centum_; that is, _centum millia sestertiorum_, or the ancient census of the citizens of the first class; for the neuter sestertia was used in calculations as an imaginary coin of _mille sestertii_ or ten nummi aurei.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust