Commentary for Kiddushin 23:10

רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר שלשה הדרסין למעה שני הנצין להדריס שני שמנין להנץ ב' פרוטות לשמין נמצא פרוטה אחת מששה באיסר האיטלקי לימא דמר אמר כת"ק ורבין דאמר כרשב"ג

[Thus:] one denar =six silver ma'ahs; one ma'ah =two pundion, one pundion = two issars, one issar = two musmis, one musmis = two kuntrunk, one kuntrunk =two perutahs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These are Roman coins, the names being corrupted. Kuntrunk.< quadrans (**) , a Roman value equal to three Roman ounces, also called terunicius; musmis or messimis< semissis = 1/2 as; pundion< dupundium = two ases.');">¹⁴</span> Hence the perutah is an eighth of an Italian [Roman] issar. R'Simeon B'Gamaliel said: three hadrisin = one ma'ah, two hanzin = one hadris, two shamnin = one hanez, two peutahs = one shamin:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hadris is perhaps a corruption of darosah = 1 3/4 as; hanez< nez (blossom) ; shamnim< shamin (Heb. hbhna, shemini - an eighth) 1/8 of an Italian issar. [For a full discussion of these terms, v. Krauss, TA, pp. 408ff.]');">¹⁵</span>

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