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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 , [[semis]] , quincunx , [[triens]] , [[quadrans]] , sextans , uncia (, also a common weight unit), and [[semuncia]] , as

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