Pecunia
Pecunia In the use of this word for money,
we have a record of the fact that in primitive times in Greece and Italy values were calculated in sheep and oxen. Stamped money was introduced into Asia Minor and Greece in the 7th century; into Rome in the 5th. For the history of Greek coins, see PONDERA; for that of Roman coins, see As; while a few general remarks as to the use of money in antiquity will be found under NUMUS.
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.