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number than either 40 or 45, as It divided the Ounce 
and half Ounce without a fradion. He likewife 
altered the weight of the filver coin, and fixed the 
price of the Pound of gold at 1000 pieces of his new 
filvcr, which were thence called Miliarenfes (4). This 
he feems to have done in imitation of the ancient 
coinage j for when the Aureus of forty in the Pound 
paired for 25 Denarii, the Pound of gold palTed for 
1000. 
^ But It was attended with this inconvenience, that 
his Solidus could not be exchanged for its true value 
in filver; for 1000 divided by 72 is 134.; but itpalTed 
for 14 (5), which was more than it was worth, and 
made two prices of gold at the fame time ; one the 
legal price of 1000 Miliarenfes for the Pound; the 
other, the current price, of 14 for the Solidus, which 
muft have occalioned dilputes in the payment of 
fmall fums. 
To remedy this inconvenience, it was thought pro* 
per to alter the weight of the filver money, and hav- 
ing fixt the price of the Pound of filver at five 
Solid! (6), to coin 60 pieces out of it (7) ; which 
(4) M»X»ap)iVjov, TO jj'iXiorov T»k Ta %puo-« x/rpas’ puX») yap c! 
P«p.a»o» T« ktu yt^txfpfxxTUtrav to ts6(tov rrii 
rpotff iva J'» O.UT8 (ru^vjxi t« fAiXixpn(TKX,f «Vi vojUjTjwa 
Xaf^avftv puAiapnina iS . Glollse nomicae, quoted by Gronovius, 
L. IV. c. 16. de pecunia vetere* 
(5) See the preceeding note, 
(6) Jubemus ut pro argenti fumma quam quis thefauris fuerit 
illaturus, inferendi auri accipiat faeultatem, ita ut pro fingulis 
libris argenti, quinos Solidos inferat. Cod. Theod. Dc argenti 
pretio, & Cod. Juftin. L. X. Tit. 76. 
(7) Gum publica celebrtntur ofEcIa, fit fportulis nummus 
argenteus,— nec majorum argentcum nummum fas fit expendere, 
retained 
