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Siliqua
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Siliqua 

(1) An ancient Roman unit of weight or measure equal to 1/728 of a libra (327.45 g) or one-sixth of a scripulum (0.19g).

(2) A Roman and Byzantine silver coin. First issued in A.D. 323, it was equal to 1/24 of a gold solidus. During the fifth and sixth centuries it was used as the basic monetary unit of the Byzantine Empire. With the fall of the Byzantine Empire the sili-qua went out of use.



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More than a catalogue, a feat that took 13 months to complete, The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure offers groundbreaking research on silver siliquae (most of the coins) and the peculiarly British custom of clipping these coins, probably undertaken under semi-official control in order not to reduce the amount of coinage available yet procuring silver for other high quality objects (p.
A group of 13 siliquae were found at Mildenhall at a similar time to the plate hoard (Pearce 1942), although no direct link between the two deposits has been established.
 
 
 
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