On The Probable Fall In The Value Of Gold: The Commercial And Social Consequences Which May Ensue, And The Measures Which It Invites (1859)

We find here subsequently the arrangement that the denarius has everywhere legal currency and is the only medium of official reckoning[115], while the local coins have legal currency within their limited range but according to a tariff unfavourable for them as compared with the denarius[116]. This was probably not introduced all at once, and in part perhaps may have preceded Caesar; but it was at any rate the essential complement of the Caesarian arrangement as to the imperial coinage, whose new gold piece found its immediate model in the almost equally heavy coin of Alexander and was doubtless calculated especially for circulation in the east. Reform of the Calendar Of a kindred nature was the reform of the calendar. The republican calendar, which strangely enough was still the old decemviral calendar - an imperfect adoption of the octaeteris that preceded Meton[117] - had by a combination of wretched mathematics and wretched administration come to anticipate the true time by 67 whole days, so that e. g. the festival of Flora was celebrated on the 11th July instead of the 28th April ...»