uncia

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An engraving of the quincunx, or piece of five unciæ, is given, bearing on one side a cross, a V, and five pellets; and on the other a cross only.

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Or a libra of the same crude gold, crushed up, is mixed together with half a libra of stibium likewise crushed, and put into a crucible with half an uncia of copper filings, and heated until they melt, then a sixth part of granulated lead is thrown into the same crucible.

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A loss of a sicilicus of silver to the bes, would be one part in 32, or about 3.1%; three drachmae would equal 4.7%, and half an uncia 6.2%, or would indicate that the original bullion had a fineness in the various cases of about 950, 933, and 912.

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If in three-quarters of a centumpondium of copper there are less than seven uncia and a semi-uncia or a bes of silver, then so much rich lead must be added as to make in the copper and lead alloy one of the proportions of silver which I have already mentioned.

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For example, if in each centumpondium of copper not yet re-melted, there is a quarter of a libra and a semi-uncia of silver, then the thirty-eight centumpondia that are smelted together must contain a total of eleven librae and an uncia of silver.

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