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Imperial aurei. The aureus (derived from aurum, meaning “gold”), the standard gold coin initially valued at 25 denarii was introduced during the Roman Republic – in the 80s BCE – by general L. Cornelius Sulla and only struck occasionally over the next decades. The coin was struck more frequently under Julius Caesar, who standardized the weight of the coin at 1/40th of a librum (the Roman pound, approx. 328.9 g), about 8,2 grams. The aureus was frequently issued well into Imperial ...