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To serve on the governing council of a small city or town required an annual income of 100,000 sesterces.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The necessities of life were brought up from Ostia and the neighbouring municipalities, and the price of grain was lowered to three sesterces.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

And he had so much cash on hand that he loaned forty million sesterces to Rome’s newest subjects, the British.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2015

The Roman stowed away the sesterces in a wallet and hung it again inside his tunic.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

By its provisions, no woman was allowed to receive by inheritance property exceeding the value of one hundred thousand sesterces.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred