Then, it had to pay 24 solidi.
Menas agrees to pay 24 "solidi" should he be proved to have been a party to any theft of the agricultural estate under his charge.
The wergeld of the upper class of freemen was worth a payment of 300 solidi, the underclass freeman worth 200 solidi, and the lowest class of freeman was 150 solidi.
They would have used the solidi for high-value transactions such as buying land or bulk purchases of goods.
The amount of the cathedraticum was fixed in ancient times at two solidi (coins; a solidus was one seventy-second part of a pound of gold).
These reduced solidi, with a star both on obverse and reverse, weighed about 4.25 g.
It shows that the village owed the comparatively large annual sum of five silver "solidi" to the count for its privileges.
A value has not yet been put on the coins, though individual solidi sell for between 400 and 1000.
