Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Triens

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. 

TRIENS. A copper coin, weighing four ounces, and equal in value to one-third of an As. (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 13.) It has four balls stamped upon it to denote the value, as in the annexed example (Triens/1.1) from an original drawn on a scale of two thirds the actual size.

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