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retained the name Miharenfes, though the Pound of 
Gold was worth but 864. 
A fchguaft on the Bafilics tells us, that << One 
n ‘s "'“‘‘th 1 2 Folles {of copperX or 
„ “ Miharenfis : therefore izSiliq^s are half 
a Sohdus, for the whole Solidus is worth 1 2 Mi- 
harenfo, or 24 Siliquas (8).- The R6man Pound 
f'ln ‘r^c rj?^ Sihquas (9), therefore there were 72 
of th^e Solid! in the Pound; and each of them being 
worth 12 Miharenfes, the Pound of fiver which 
was valued at 5 Solidi, muft have contained 60 
Miharenfes. 
How many Miliarenfes Conftantine coined out 
of^ the Pound of filver is no where faid j but if the 
price of Gold was nearly the fame in his reign, as 
when 5 Sohdi were worth a Pound of filver, the 
Pound mu/l have been worth 144 Pounds of fiver* 
and 1000 divided by 14.^, gives 694 for the number 
of^ Miharenfes coined out of the Pound. Therefore 
It IS probable Conftantine’s number was either 60 or 
70. If the former, each piece fliould wei^h 72 « 
Troy grains; if the latter, 72,4. ^ 
Eifenfchmid found the larger filver of Conftantine 
to come up to 90 Paris grains, or 72 _!j_ Troy : but 
the fmaller (which fhould be its half) feldom a- 
mounted to 40 Paris grains, or 3 24 Troy ; which 
quam qui formari folet, cum argenti libra una in ar^enteas fexa- 
ginta dividitur. Cod. Theod. De expenfis ludorum. ^ 
^ (8) X,,' ?r, A % Ki,drm f&XH, «V1 .S', W. 
TO Tp.,0-0^ .S' ir. riSl .ixsV.o, 
voiAKrfj.a, iysi fMXKx,pr,<rtoi Ijroi yn^dria, X(T . Schol. in L XXIII 
apud Gro|.ov. L. IV. c. ,6. De pccunia v«erc. 
(g) bee Rhemnius I annius, and others, 
Voc. LXI. u u u leaves 
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