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THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>COLLECTOR</strong> SERIES<br />

Scribe or Toicn Clerk, Gr. Grammateus — An<br />

officer whose name occasionally presents itself on the<br />

Greek money. (See Akerman's Num. Man., 1840,<br />

p. 23.) Com p. Neocoros.<br />

Scnpnlum—A silver weight of 18 grains in ancient<br />

Roman computation, and originally a measure in<br />

counting seeds. It afterward acquired an artificial<br />

meaning in the Roman monetary system, and the term<br />

was applied to the earliest gold piece = 20 sestertii,<br />

struck somewhere out of the city about B.C. 206.<br />

Sede vacante—A phrase which occurs on the money<br />

issued under the authority of the Senior Cardinal in<br />

the Papal series, and under that of the Chapter in the<br />

case of a bishop or archbishop during an interregnum<br />

throughout Germany and the Netherlands.<br />

Sejant—The type where a lion or other object is<br />

represented on a coin in a sitting attitude.<br />

Servus Christi—The legend found on some of the<br />

latest money of the infamous Emperor Justinian II.,<br />

711 A.D.<br />

Sestertium—1000 sestertii; decks sestertia, a million<br />

sestertii.<br />

Sestertius— A Roman brass coin of the republican<br />

epoch = 2i asses, or the fourth part of a denarius.<br />

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