Decussis
Decussis ten asses, as a Roman coin a ten as piece, struck after the reduction of the weight of the as, but rarely found. [As.] The name occurs in the Lex Aternia Tarpeia, B.C. 454. (Varr. L. L. 5.170; Fest. p. 257, 20, M.; Stat. Silv. 4.9, 9; Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverw. ii. p. 11.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.