Delineation of Numismatic Science

whence nummi ratiti coins with a ship/raft symbol, and the old proverb: Either head or ship: hence Ovid, Fasti, Book I, v. 239:

But a good posterity formed the stern on the bronze,
Bearing witness to the arrival of the guest God.

Cf. v. 229-230. Cf. GROSEI DE BOSE, Dissertation on the Janus of the ancients and on some coins regarding him; the first of the Electa rei nummariæ or Select Dissertations on rare ancient coins (Hamburg 1709, quarto).

§. VII.

But when a certain value was assigned to each species, money was called moneta money/mint from monendo warning/advising, because each species warned of a certain value or weight: or because it warns that no fraud be committed in metal or weight. See CICERO, On Divination, books I and II, and ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, Etymologies, Book XVI, Chapter XVII. Cf. DAVID HOFMANN, Dissertation held at the Julian Academy in 1717 on the Goddess Moneta, and VON LINGEN, cited sketch, Chapter VI, on the origin of money among the Romans, p. 67 et seqq.

§. VIII.

The value of Roman bronze coins was of the customary as bronze coin: But the As, which is also called assis (not to be confused with the inheritance as of the Jurists, which was divided into twelve ounces), was at first