dupondius

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  1. A Roman bronze coin, of the value of 2 asses (see as), issued by Augustus and some of his successors: popularly called by coin-collectors “second brass,” to distinguish it from the sestertius, the “first brass” Roman coin.

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  • Among them was a hoard of 32 denarii and 12 copper of which Mr. Craster has made the following list Silver_: 2 Republican, 1 Julius Caesar, 1 Mark Antony, 1 Nero 1 Galba, 3 Vitellius, 13 Vespasian, 3 Titus, 6 Domitian 1 unidentified Copper_: 3 Vespasian, 1 Titus, 2 Domitian, 3 Nerva, 1 Trajan 2 unidentified The latest coin was the copper of Trajan--a dupondius or Second Brass of A.D. 98. All the coins had been corroded into a single mass, apparently by the burning of a wooden box in which they have been kept; this burning must have occurred about A.D. 98-100. Among the bronze objects found during the year was a dragonesque enamelled brooch vi) In Upper Weardale (co. Durham) a peat-bog has given up two bronze paterae or skillets, bearing the stamp of the Italian bronze-worker Cipius Polybius, and an uninscribed bronze ladle. —  Roman Britain in 1914
 

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  1. Latin, also dupondium, dipondium, from duo, = English two, + pondus, a weight, from pendere, weigh: see pound.
 

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