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fore when 40 Aurei were coined out of the Pound of 
gold, and 84 Denarii out of the Pound of filver, the 
Pound of gold paffing for 1000 Denarii, was worth 
1 Pounds of filver. 
When the Aureus of 45 in the Pound palled for 
25 Denarii of 96 in the Pound, the proportional va- 
lue of gold to filver was as 375 to 32, or a little under 
1 1 1 to 1. 
Suetonius tells us, that Caefar brought fo great a> 
quantity of gold from Gaul, that he fold it through- 
out Italy and the Provinces for 3000 nummi the 
Pound (5). 3000 nummi make 750 Denarii j and 
750 is to 84, as 844 to I. This was its price as 
merchandize, when the market was overfiocked, and 
the feller in hafte to difpofe of his goods y but what 
etfedl it had on the coin, we do not know* 
By the diminution of the Aureus for above half a 
century before the reign of Conftantine (6), the price' 
of gold appears to have been rifing, till it came to. 
above 1 4 times its weight in filver j for five Solidi of 
72 in the Pound, being valued at a Pound' of fil- 
ver (7), the proportion between the two metals was. 
ag 144 to I.. 
§ V. Of the of the ancient Greek and Roman 
money. 
IT does not appear that either the ancient Greeks, 
©r, Romans allayed their money, but coined the 
(^c) Suetonius in Julio, c. 54. 
(6); See the Pembroke Collection, from Tab. XX. toXXIV., 
f7) S.ee. Ccxl. Jufiinian. L..X. Tit.. 76.. quoted above. 
metals 
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