Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sextans

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. 

SEX'TANS. A copper coin of Roman currency, weighing two ounces (unciae), and equal in value to the sixth part of an As. (Varro, L. L v. 171.) It bore the impress of a caduceus and a strigilis, with two balls to denote its value, as exhibited by the annexed specimen (Sextans/1.1), from an original, drawn of one-third the actual size.

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