t 507 ) 
dway m prefents on Birth»days, and New-year’s, as 
v/as the cuflom at Rome j and fonie of them may be 
modern forgeries : but the light pieces of 54 and 55 
grains, imill have been owing to the negligence or 
roguery of the coiners j though fome ofthefe too may 
be counterfeits. 
The, following Table exhibits the weights of forty- 
fix of the faireft Denarii in the Britifh Mafeum, 
Such of them as are marked w'ith two dots, ai'e a, 
little worn, though very little. The Biga:i and 
Quadrigati arc didinguidied by the letters B. aidQ. 
66.5 : 
66,1 
04.15 : 
^ 3^33 
63.15 : 
63.07 : 
63^05 
62.7 
62,43 
62,27 
6i,95 
61,93 
6x,8 ; 
61.8 
61.73 
61.73 
61,55 
61,52 
61.5 : 
6r,5 
61,35 
6i>33 
61,2 
Troy 
Q_ 
B 
Q. 
Q, 
grams 
61.15 
61,12 : 
61,12 
61.1 : Q 
61,07 : B 
60.85 ; 
^0,75 
60,5 : B 
,60,33 ; B 
60,3 ; QL 
60.2 B 
'60,05 
'59,95: 
59.15 : B 
58,92: (T 
58.85 : 
58,67 : Q. 
58.2 
58.15 
57’37: 
5(5,87: 
•56.55 CL 
55 >0 CL 
46)2803,86 Sum total. 
60,95 Mean Dei arius. 
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