BOOK VII. 263 



The 2nd =: 12 double sextulae. 



Coiners who mint silver also divide the bes of the lesser weights in the same 

 way as the greater weights ; our people, indeed, divide it into sixteen sem- 

 unciae, and the semuncia into eighteen units of four siliquae each. 



There are ten weights which are placed in the other pan of the balance, 

 when they weigh the silver which remains from the copper that has been 

 consumed, when they assay the alloy with fire. 

 The ist = 16 semunciae = i bes. 



or 18 units of 4 siliquae each. 



The coiners of Nuremberg who mint silver, divide the bes into sixteen sem- 

 unciae, but divide the semuncia into four drachmae, and the drachma into 

 four pfennige. They employ nine weights. 

 The 1st = 16 semunciae. 



„ 2nd =8 



„ 3rd =4 



„ 4th =2 



„ 5th =1 



For they divide the bes in the same way as our own people, but since they 

 divide the semuncia into four drachmae, 



the 6th weight = 2 drachmae. 



,, 7th „ =1 drachma or 4 pfennige. 



,, 8th „ =2 Pfennige. 



„ 9th „ =1 pfennig 



The men of Cologne and Antwerp*' divide the bes into twelve units of 

 five drachmae and one scripuluni, which weights they call nummi. Each 

 of these they again divide into twenty-four units of four siliquae each, 

 which they call grenlins. They have ten weights, of which 



*^Agrippinenses and Antuerpiani. 



