| As for the price exacted, it ranged from a quadrans to a very high figure. |
| Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. |
| The basic coinage instituted by Augustus comprised the copper quadrans, brass semis, copper as, brass dupondius and sestertius, silver denarius, and gold aureus. |
| He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time. |
