page_title: Nummus
hierarchical_section_title: Nummus
context_page_description: Nummus, plural nummi is a Latin term meaning "coin", but used technically by modern writers for a range of low-value copper coins issued by the Roman and Byzantine empires during Late Antiquity. It comes from the Greek nomos via its Western Doric form noummos, which was used to describe a coin in some parts of southern Italy. The word was also used during the later years of the Roman Republic and the early Empire, either as a general word for a coin, or to describe the sestertius, which was the standard unit for keeping accounts.
context_section_description: Nummus (Greek: νοῦμμος, noummos), plural nummi (νοῦμμοι)  is a Latin term meaning "coin", but used technically by modern writers for a range of low-value copper coins issued by the Roman and Byzantine empires during Late Antiquity. It comes from the Greek nomos via its Western Doric form noummos, which was used to describe a coin in some parts of southern Italy. The word was also used during the later years of the Roman Republic and the early Empire, either as a general word for a coin, or to describe the sestertius, which was the standard unit for keeping accounts.
caption: Nummi coins of the late reign of Anastasius I: on the left a 40-nummi coin (follis) and on the right a 5-nummi coin (pentanummium).
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