Note 388 — Chapter IV · THE CENTURIES AND THE CLASSES

P. 52. Proof of the date is the fact that the ratings are in the sextantarian as, legally adopted in 269 or 268 (page 86). The as of this standard was valued at one tenth of a denarius, so that 1000 asses = 100 denarii = 1 mina; Dion. Hal. iv. 16 f.; Polyb. vi. 23. 15: Οἱ ὑπὲρ τὰς μυρίας τιμώμενοι δραχμάς, descriptive of the highest rating—100,000 asses; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 249, n. 4; Hill, Greek and Roman Coins, 47. It could not have been later than 241, in which year the reform of the centuriate assembly must have been far advanced, if not completed; page 215.