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Rh derived from an epithet of Juno, in whoe temple the money was coined. The pes monetalis, or rather its ubdiviions, eem to have been the tandard for meauring the diameter of the ilver coin; and it appears from Vitruvius, and others, that there was much connection between the Greek and Roman meaures and the Greek and, Roman money. The pes monetae is mentioned frequently by the Writers of the middle ages, and is defined from one of thee by Du Cange, to be "meta monetariis præcripta in "cudendis nummis, quam omnino obervare tenentur." From this hint, I examined everal very fair Roman coins, both aurei and Table