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Dupondius (lat.) a. m. két font, a régi római sulymérték-rendszerben két as (l. o.). Mint pénzdarab, a D. később is két as-t jelentett, mikor már az as nem fontszerinti volt.
Kezdete Octavianus ( Augustus császár) pénzverésével kezdődik, vége 476, a Római Birodalom bukása. Innentől háromféle fémből vernek pénzt: aranyból (aureus – 1/40 font súlyú -, és fele quinar), ezüstből (dénár, quinar ami dénár fele), bronzból (sestertius, dupondius, as, semis, quadrans).
The dupondius ( Latin two-pounder) was a brass coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire valued at 2 asses (4/5 of a sestertius or 1/5 of a denarius during the Republic and 1/2 of a sestertius or 1/8 of a denarius during the time of Augustus ). The dupondius was introduced during the Roman Republic as a large bronze cast coin ...
3. pénzként: a köztársaság időszakában Kr. e. 269-240, majd 214-211 között, végül 38-37 folyamán bocsátottak ki dupondius-t. Anyagösszetétele (ólommal ötvözött bronz), súlya, ábrázolása változott, értéke két as volt.
- Republican Era Coinage
- Imperial Era Coinage
- Byzantine Coinage
The Romans replaced the usage of Greek coins, first by bronze ingots, then by disks known as the aes rude. The system thus named as was introduced in ca. 280 BC as a large cast bronze coin during the Roman Republic. The following fractions of the as were also produced: the bes (2⁄3), semis (1⁄2), quincunx (5⁄12), triens (1⁄3), quadrans (1⁄4), sexta...
Following the coinage reform of Augustus in 23 BC, the as was struck in reddish pure copper (instead of bronze), and the sestertius or 'two-and-a-halfer' (originally 2.5 asses, but now four asses) and the dupondius (2 asses) were produced in a golden-colored alloy of bronze known by numismatists as orichalcum. The as continued to be produced until ...
The as, under its Greek name assarion, was re-established by the Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1282–1328) and minted in great quantities in the first half of the 14th century. It was a low-quality flat copper coin, weighing ca. 3–4 grams and forming the lowest denomination of contemporary Byzantine coinage, being exchanged at 1:768 to the g...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The dupondius ( Latin two-pounder) was a brass coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire valued at 2 asses (4/5 of a sestertius or 1/5 of a denarius during the Republic and 1/2 of a sestertius or 1/8 of a denarius during the time of Augustus ).
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