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Sicinia


Sicinius is the nomen of the gens Sicinia, a plebeian family of Rome. Ancient documentation places the name in use during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. This Latin name in its masculine adoptive form evolved into the modern Italian word Sicignano, a town in Salerno and surname dominant in Southern Italy, especially in Campania.

Possible Latin forms include, in the nominative:

The gens Sicinia gained great celebrity by their advocacy of the rights of the plebeians in their struggle with the patricians.

This silver coin was minted in Rome by Quintus Sicinius in 49 BC. It is a type called a denarius, the most common Roman silver coin.

The main use of coin was to pay Rome's soldiers. In the 1st century BC, the wages of a legion were around 1,500,000 denarii, and more when Caesar raised the pay. With around 30 legions in active service in the Empire, this required huge sources of silver.

The second coin is the Q. Sicinius and C. Coponius Denarius. 49 BC. Mint in the east moving with Pompey.


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