As (Roman coin)

c. 240 – 225 BC. Æ Aes grave As

The as (pl.: assēs), occasionally assarius (pl.: assarii, rendered into Greek as ἀσσάριον, assárion),[1] was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

  1. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, p. 212, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6