Noun
A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA choenix of wheat for a denarius is not the price of famine but of scarcity. Source: Internet
A denarius from 44 BC, showing Julius Caesar on the obverse and the goddess Venus on the reverse of the coin In 59 BC, when he was four years old, his father died. Source: Internet
And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not damage the oil and the wine.” Source: Internet
Domestic religious tensions A denarius of the reign of Hilderic Differences between the Arian Vandals and their Trinitarian subjects (including both Catholics and Donatists ) were a constant source of tension in their African state. Source: Internet
Classical historians often say that in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire (~27BC) the daily wage for an unskilled laborer and common soldier was 1 denarius (with no tax deductions) or about US$28 in bread. Source: Internet
A triumphal denarius (a silver coin) shows his three trophies of captured arms, with his augur's wand and jug. Source: Internet