Note 519 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3] (continued 2)
Reading edition
As the price of copper was fixed at 25 lb. for a solidus, these coins might have been very bulky; “dumps,” as such are called by English sailors abroad, above an ounce in weight, but nothing near so heavy has come down to us; Cod. Theod., XI, xxi.