The word sestertius signifies two asses and a half. ❋ Adam Smith (1756)
They also became the first living women to be pictured and explicitly identified on a coin of the imperial mint, a bronze sestertius produced in 37–38 showing three tiny full-length images of the sisters, each captioned by name but depicted with the accoutrements of three female deities personifying abstract qualities crucial to Roman success: Securitas (Security), Concordia (Harmony), and Fortuna (Fortune).10 ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)
A sestertius, another bronze coin, was worth four asses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That Didius Julianus would pay in Greek currency, not Roman, indicates to me that the smart money had already dumped the as, the asses, and the sestertius for drachmas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Lupus flipped him a second silver sestertius and headed that way. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1996)
No point in offering her for sale, she wouldn't fetch a single sestertius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
Batiatus had no money on the premises, not one single sestertius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
I could give you every bribable senator's price down to the last sestertius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
When Sulla acceded to his request, Catilina became rich without needing to spend a single sestertius at the auctions. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
Sulla paid in full with a promissory note for twenty silver talents at his bank, the price of a funeral Rome would talk about for days, and did not count the cost, he who normally squeezed every sestertius so carefully, so ungenerously. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Paying strict attention to the process, he washed and dried his hands, and gave the boy a whole sestertius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Look at the Porcii Catones, with all that land in Lucania — not a sestertius of income thanks to the war. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
On the beach at Agrigentum he discharged his men, and gave them every last sestertius he had managed to scrape up. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
The one sestertius I shall charge you is my parting gift to you, Quirites! ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
The State was to buy immediately every ounce of wheat, barley, and millet in Italy and Italian Gaul and sell it for the ridiculously cheap price of one sestertius per modius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
If there was a spare sestertius or two, she got them to fritter away, and was never chided for frittering them away. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
[172] Literally, 'the borrowed silver was repaid in copper;' that is, instead of the ordinary silver coin, the sestertius, the value of four copper ases, only one copper as was paid. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Bronze _sestertius_ (5 cents) struck in Nero's reign; the emperor, who carries a spear, is followed by a second horseman bearing a banner. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)
It was followed by the minor denominations, the quinarius (1/2 denarius) and sestertius (1/4 denarius). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A Roman coin (sestertius of Antonia) ten inches below the turf, and a pewter farthing of James II. at the same depth. ❋ Frank Stevens (1896)
