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Say if I use the 1/32 libral standard for weights with a bronze coin for the uncia which means 1/12 of something.  And say the libral standard is 1728 carob.  This means that 1728/32 = 54 carob for the coin weight libral standard.  Then the uncia is 54/12 = 4.5 carob for uncia coin.  At 500/2640 grams equals one carob, which is the standard of weight I am using for one carob bean, the historical traditional sweetener before sugar cane, sugar beats, and chocolate for taste.

4.5/500*2640 = 0.852272727 grams per uncia coin of bronze.  And say at the 96% copper and 4% tin for the standard uncia coin.  This was revived, you can read at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncia_(coin) from wikipedia "In imperial times the uncia was briefly revived under Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian (117-138)."

 

Uncia (coin)

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Issued in Rome between 275-270BCE

Issued in Rome between 275-270BCE

The uncia, a Latin word used for a twelfth of anything, was a unit of length (equivalent to an inch, one-twelfth of a pes or foot) and of weight (equivalent to an ounce, one-twelfth of a libra or pound).

 

Republican coin

By derivation, it was also the name of a bronze coin valued at one-twelfth of an as produced during the Roman Republic. The uncia had a theoretical weight of about 27 grams under the libral standard and was produced occasionally towards the beginning of Roman cast bronze coinage. Obverse types of the uncia include a knucklebone (ca. 289-245 BC), a barleycorn (ca. 280-245 BC), and the helmeted bust of Roma (from ca. 240 BC).

 

Empire coin

In imperial times the uncia was briefly revived under Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian (117-138). This coin was about 11-14 mm in diameter and weighed about 0.8-1.2 grams. It featured the bust of the emperor on the obverse with no inscription and "SC" (for Senatu Consulto) in a wreath on the reverse. If this issue belonged to the imperial system, meaning it was not a provincial piece, it would be an uncia. This issue may have been made only for circulation in the East.

 

See also

A duella was an ancient Roman unit of weight, being twice as heavy as a sextula, and so a third of a uncia or Roman ounce, i.e. just over 9 grams, therefore making the duella at the 1/32 standard = 4.5 carob / 3 = 1.5 carob weight bronze and sextula as 0.75 carob or 3/4 carob.

 

Well, say I work here with at least the equations of a 4.5 carob uncia.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(coin), the bes (2/3), semis (1/2), quincunx (5/12), triens (1/3), quadrans (1/4), sextans (1/6), uncia (1/12, also a common weight unit), and semuncia (1/24), as well as multiples of the as, the dupondius (2), sestertius (2.5), tressis (3), quadrussis (4), quinquessis (5), and denarius (10), were produced.

 

 

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