Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Bigatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

BIGA'TUS, sc. nummus, or argentum bigatum. (Liv. xxxiii. 23.) A silver denarius; one of the earliest Roman coins (Liv. xxiii. 15. Tac. Germ. 5.), which bore the device of a biga, or two-horse car, on the reverse (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 13.), from which it received its name. The example (Bigatus/1.1) is from an original in the British museum, and drawn of the actual size.

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