aureus

[ awr-ee-uh s ]

/ ˈɔr i əs /

a gold coin and monetary unit of ancient Rome, from Caesar to Constantine I.

Origin of aureus

1600–10; < Latin: literally, golden

I once gave an aureus to a man named Croto to let me escape from a slave-prison.

Darkness and Dawn |Frederic W. Farrar
The value of the Aureus, which was also called Solidus, varied at different times.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology |Charles K. Dillaway
Primo avulso non deficit alter / aureus—The first 50 being wrenched away, another of gold succeeds.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources |James Wood
The reverse of an aureus of the reign of Titus represents the Colosseum with these statues and a quadriga in the centre.

The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 |George Gordon Byron

As loyal, at any rate, as men who would sell their souls for an aureus, answered the Spaniard.

Darkness and Dawn |Frederic W. Farrar

aureus

/ (ˈɔːrɪəs) /

a gold coin of the Roman Empire

Latin: golden; see aureate