bronze and later copper coin used in Ancient Rome
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- denomination
- Subclass of
- coin
- Part of
- Roman currency
- Country
- Ancient Rome
- Image
- As-270vChr.JPG
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- As (coin)
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- As (coin)
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Unicode character
- 𐆚
- unit symbol
- 𐆚
- price
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Encyclopedic overview
c. 240 – 225 BC. Æ Aes grave As
The as (pl.: assēs), occasionally assarius (pl.: assarii; Ancient Greek: ἀσσάριον, romanized: assárion), was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
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