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au⋅re⋅us

  [awr-ee-uhs]
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–noun, plural au⋅re⋅i  [awr-ee-ahy] .
a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Rome, from Caesar to Constantine I.
Origin:
1600–10; < L: lit., golden
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aureus

basic gold monetary unit of ancient Rome and the Roman world. It was first named nummus aureus ("gold money"), or denarius aureus, and was equal to 25 silver denarii; a denarius equaled 10 bronze asses. (In 89 BC, the sestertius, equal to one-quarter of a denarius, replaced the bronze ass as a unit of account.) In Constantine's reform of AD 312, the aureus was replaced by the solidus as the basic monetary unit

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