Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Solĭdus, Solĭdus

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Solĭdus

（νόμισμα). A Roman gold coin, introduced by the emperor Constantine about A.D. 312, which remained in use until the downfall of the Byzantine Empire; its weight was 1/72 lb., its value about $3. The word is preserved in the modern Italian soldo and the French sou. See Numismatics, page 1115.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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