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Lex Papiria

Lex Papiria 89 B.C., fixed the value of the as at half an ounce: one of the numerous enactments which tampered with the coinage (Plin. Nat. 33.46).

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.