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The quadrans (literally meaning "a quarter") was a low-value Roman bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other chemical element such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon....
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Coin

A coin is a piece of hard material, usually metal or a metallic material, usually in the shape of a Disk , and most often issued by a government....
worth one quarter of an as.

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The quadrans (literally meaning "a quarter") was a low-value Roman bronze

Bronze

Coin

A coin is a piece of hard material, usually metal or a metallic material, usually in the shape of a Disk , and most often issued by a government....
worth one quarter of an as. The quadrans was issued from the beginning of cast

Casting

In metalworking, casting involves pouring a liquid metal into a Mold_, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then is allowed to solidify....
bronze coins during the Roman Republic

Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
with three pellets representing three unciae

Uncia (coin)

The uncia, a Latin word used for a twelfth of anything, was a unit of length and of weight ....
as a mark of value. The obverse type, after some early variations, featured the bust of Hercules

Hercules

Hercules is the Ancient Rome name for the mythical Ancient Greece hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italian shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength....
, while the reverse featured the prow of a galley. Coins with the same value were issued from other cities in Central Italy, using a cast process.

After ca. 90 BC, when bronze coinage was reduced to the semuncial standard, the quadrans became the lowest-valued coin in production. It was produced sporadically until the time of Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius

Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus , generally known in English as Antoninus Pius was Roman Emperors from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii....
(AD 138-161). Unlike other coins during the Roman Empire, the quadrans rarely bore the image of the emperor. The quadrans was also known as teruncius, i.e. "three unciae".

The Greek word for the quadrans was ??d???t?? (kodrantes), which was translated in the King James Version of the Bible

Bible

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as "farthing

Farthing

Farthing is an old word meaning a fourth or a quarter. In modern usage it could refer to:*Farthing , an old British coin valued one quarter of a British one penny coin ...
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