𐆘
𐆘
£
Meaning
- sestertius, a unit of currency worth 2½ as. The symbol precedes a number to indicate the value in sesterces.
[…]fīunt per triennium 𐆘 fortāsse D mīlia.
In the three years he made about five hundred thousand sesterces.c. 70 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Charles Duke Yonge, In Verrem actio secunda, volume 3, section 118:
Origins
Roman numeral Ⅱ followed by S for semis, with a cross-bar