[hanamizu]

I had absolutely no idea that a Denarius was worth ten asses.

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An as was a Roman copper coin about the size of a quarter but a bit thicker. Two asses were a dupondius and four were a sestertius. The denarius was about the size of our dimes, but again thicker.

[Lurker]

Thanks for the info, I think.

L

[Lurker]

I thought two asses were a goodtimius and four were an exhaustius.

My mistake.

L

[Verginius Rufus]

Before the British currency was converted to a decimal system in the 1970s, "d." was the abbreviation for a penny, from the Latin denarius.

In the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20), the coin is called a denarion, the Greek transliteration of denarius. In the King James translation, it is translated as a penny. So you have the workers agreeing to work all day for a penny.