What is "solidi"

Usage examples of "solidi".

The petition of Joannes, who is son-in-law to Thomas, informs us that he is willing to pay the 10,000 solidi due, if we will make over to him the said farms, and all the property of his father-in-law.

Probably the solidi thus paid to him are mesne rents received by the King and accounted for to Theodahad.

In fact, the stewards had deposited the bulk of that coin with moneylenders in Novae and Prista and Durostorum, with the result that every eight of my invested solidi earned me one additional solidus in interest every year.

It was heavy with gold solidi, and even through her grief, her eyes widened at it.

In short order, the transaction was done, and we left having exchanged our Serenissiman solidi for a considerable amount of Menekhetan coin.

For we are persuaded that a man with a salary of two solidi a year could never hoard so much.

I declined, but Harald prevailed on me to take a generous measure of gold solidi to assist myself and the other monks on our return journey.

It is the custom of the Christians of Rome and Gaul to send holy men to the Franks and other nations, with many thousand solidi, to redeem baptized captives.

A conception of the extent of this spoil may be gathered from the fact that the Greek emperor during the seventh century paid the Avars annually as tribute eighty thousand gold solidi, and that on a single occasion the Emperor Heraclius was forced to pay them an equal sum.