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Pound. But if the ftandard weiglit of this coin 
amounted to 70 grains, the Pound will weigh C040, 
agreeable to what we found it from the Aurti. 
. P^^brohe Colledion contains o of thefe 
pieces from Conftantine to Juftinian. Five of them 
amount to 70 grains, and 29 to 69 ; the reft are 
lighter, even to 64 grams. But we do not know what 
prefervation they are in. And uulefs tlie ftandard 
weight of this com amounted to 70 Troy grains, 
Conftantme s Pound muft have been fomewhat de- 
ncient of the ancient Standard. 
Having thus given as Compleat an account of the 
Roman gold, as I have* been able to collea from 
authors of credit,^ and my own obfervation, I fhall 
proceed to examine the evidence we have of the 
vveight of their filver money. 
The C^fular filver is fo unequal, that the Ro- 
mans muft have been very negligent in fizing their 
^eces.^ Villalpandus tells us, that weighing many 
Denarii of the fame form, infcription, and apparent 
mapitude, and fo like to each other, that they feem 
to have been ftruck, not only in the fame aee but 
even on the fame day, he found them to differ in 
weight, 5, 9, or lo grains from each other (4). 
There^ a piece in the Pembroke Colledion, Coin 
Roma, and X, 
the mark of the Denarius, on one fide, on the other 
(4) Cum plures Denario^ appenderemus ejufdem Form* in. 
fcripnonis, & pene magnkudinis, atque ita fimiks, ut non fo!u?n 
eoderti tempore, fed codem prorfus die, percuflbs fuilTe conjicerei? 
tamen eos deprehendimus quinis, novenis, aut denis grand p^n 
t L/ tTr & "“’PH. 
P- 357* -t en Roman grains are equal to about 7 f Troy. 
VoL. Lxr. T 1 1 "^Csftor 
