What is "sesterces"

Usage examples of "sesterces".

After which he gave every ranker a cash bonus of two hundred sesterces, and every centurion a cash bonus of two thousand sesterces.

All of which had reduced the household expenditures to ten thousand sesterces a year.

Record on your paper that Gaius Julius Caesar, proconsul, has this day borrowed thirty million sesterces in coin to fund his legitimate war in the name of Rome.

No one was allowed to have more than sixty thousand sesterces in cash.

Of actual coins in circulation, there were probably more denarii than sesterces, but accounts were always expressed in sesterces, not denarii.

There was a means test of entirely unofficial nature: a senator was supposed to enjoy an income of a million sesterces per annum.

Roman accounting practices were established in sesterces, though the denarius, more valuable, was apparently a commoner coin in circulation.

Esquiline near the Agger for a rent he could just afford: three thousand sesterces a year.

Forum Romanum and show the censors proof that he had property yielding him an income of a million sesterces a year!

Or even property yielding an income of four hundred thousand sesterces a year!

As things stood in reality, he owned no property at all, and his income had never exceeded ten thousand sesterces in a year, even now he was kept by women.

Marius, as if Caesar had said four thousand sesterces rather than four million.

I have an income of over four million sesterces a year, so I also qualify for the Senate.

I had leaned for support upon a ruined wall: I thought with anger of the enormous sums expended for his adoption, three hundred million sesterces distributed to the soldiers.

April was not yet done, something over a million and a half sesterces had already been swallowed up, which meant that Carbo would have to ask the Treasury for more before too long.