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Sextula

Sextula the sixth part of the uncia, was the smallest denomination of money in use among the Romans (Varro, L. L. 5.171). It was also applied, like the uncia, to other kinds of magnitude. [UNCIA]

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.