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pishpash Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 3626 Posts	Posted 10/09/2014 4:00 pm Anybody tell me who this is please? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291259013...RK:MEBIDX:IT Report this Post to the Staff

VisigothKing Pillar of the Community United States 4778 Posts	Posted 10/09/2014 4:04 pm It's Arcadius. Report this Post to the Staff
pishpash Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 3626 Posts	Posted 10/09/2014 4:13 pm Thanks VK, I thought it might be. Love the new name :) Report this Post to the Staff
Topcat7 Pillar of the Community 1121 Posts	Posted 10/09/2014 7:04 pm The siliqua is the modern name given to small, thin, Roman silver coins produced from 4th century and later. When the coins were in circulation, the Latin word siliqua was a unit of weight defined as one twenty-fourth of the weight of a Roman solidus. Per Wikipaedia Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 10/09/2014 9:00 pm The siliqua derived it's name for the Latin (Roman) the carob seed, six of which made up the weight of scruple (1/1728 of a Roman Pound). The gold semissis (1/2 solidus) was valued at 12 silver siliquae. The gold 1 1/2 Scripulum was valued at 9 silver siliquae The gold tremissis (1/3 solidus) was valued at 8 silver siliquae. I cannot find any evidence that a gold 1/4 solidus, that would have been valued at 6 siliquae, was ever minted. David Sear has presented an interesting read on this subject: ( Roman Coins and their Values - 1988) under the coinage reforms of Doicletian, Constantine the Great, and Constantius 11. Report this Post to the Staff
Topcat7 Pillar of the Community 1121 Posts	Posted 10/09/2014 10:24 pm Edited by Topcat7 10/09/2014 10:25 pm Report this Post to the Staff
chrsmat71 Pillar of the Community United States 4981 Posts	Posted 10/11/2014 9:05 pm pish, did you get that coin? I noticed the auction has ended. Report this Post to the Staff
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