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peared fomehow damaged ; which, fays he, in' To 
^heavy a metal, might amount to the lofs of a grain 
or. two (i ). But the lofs of lels than a grain is very 
'difcernible, without the help of a glafs. 
Upon the whole, if the ftandard weight of the 
imperial Aureus of forty-five in the Pound, did not 
exceed 112 grains, the Roman Pound will weigh 
5040 Troy grains, as we found it from the con- 
fular Aureus. 
Alexander Sevcrus coined pieces of one half and 
one third of the Aureus, called Semifles, and Tre- 
inifies (2).;. whence the Aureus came to be called 
SoJidus, as. being their integer. 
Soon after the reign of ti)is prince, the coinage bc-» 
came very irregular, till Conlfantine entirely new 
modeled it, by coining 72 Solid! of four Scruples, 
oiit of the Pound of gold (3), and for the Denarius 
fubfiituting the Miliarenfis, of which I fliall igive 
'fome account hereafter. 
Greaves’s fecond table exhibits twenty-nine of 
thefe Solid! from Confiantine to Heraclius, weighing 
from 671 grains to jo\. The mean from the twenty- 
nine-pieces is 69 grains, which, multiplied by 72, 
gives but 4968 grains for the weight of the Roman 
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(1) EtfenTchtnicj, p. 34. 
(2) Lampridius, in Alex. Severo. 
(3) Siquis tolidos appendere voluerit, auri co£li VI folidos 
■quaternorum fcrupulorum, noftris vultibus* figuraios, adpendac 
pro fingulis unciis, XII pro duabus : eadem ratio fervanda & li 
materiam quis inferat, ut folidos dedifl'e videatur. Cod. Theod. 
de Ponderatoribus, § i. Again, IlluJ autem cautionis adjicimus, 
ut quotiefcunque certa fumma .folidorum pro tituli quantitate 
•debetur, & auri mafia tranfmittitur, in LXXII folidos hbra 
feraiur accepta. Cod. Juftin. L. X, Tit.70. de Sufceptoribus, § 5. 
Pound, 
