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 It is curious that the later value of the denarius gives the sestertium £7. 7s. 1½d., a sum in 7 as the other in 8.

In the article Aureus the writer says that the sovereign contains 113.12g. of fine gold. It really contains (neglecting the third place of decimals), neither more nor less than 113 grains. The result is that he gives the aureus as £1. 1s. 1d. and a little more than a half-penny, instead of as nearly as possible £1. 1s. 2d.

The following is an outline of my calculation:

Required the price of 60 grains of silver $29⁄30$ths fine, at 62d. per ounce standard. (1 ounce = 480 gr.)

x = 60 $62⁄480$ $40⁄37$ $29⁄30$ (Standard being $37⁄40$ths fine). Reducing x = $31 × 29⁄3 × 37$.

The later denarius is 52.5 gr. or 8.75 of the earlier, and the sestertium is in the same proportion.

V. 29 and 30. Max. Tyr. . (al. .) §4: Cic. Phil. . §15:

V. 37. Auson. Epist. . 38 seq.: