{"id":49424,"count":1,"description":"The as (plural asses), also assarius (rendered into Greek as \u1f00\u03c3\u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, assarion) was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.\nThe as was introduced in ca. 280 BC as a large cast bronze coin during the Roman Republic. In addition to the as, fractions of the as, the bes (2\/3), semis (1\/2), quincunx (5\/12), triens (1\/3), quadrans (1\/4), sextans (1\/6), uncia (1\/12, also a common weight unit), and semuncia (1\/24), as well as multiples of the as, the dupondius (2), sestertius (2.5), tressis (3), quadrussis (4), quinquessis (5), and denarius (10), were produced.\nAfter the as had been issued as a cast coin for about seventy years, and its weight had been reduced in several stages, a sextantal as was introduced (meaning that it weighed one-sixth of a pound). At about the same time a silver coin, the denarius, was also introduced. Earlier Roman silver coins had been struck on the Greek weight standards that facilitated their use in southern Italy and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/as\/","name":"AS","slug":"as","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/49424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=49424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}