CONGIARY, among medallists, a gift or donative represented on a medal. The word comes from the Latin congius; because the first presents made to the people of Rome consisted in wine and oil, which were measured out to them in congi. The congiary was properly a present made by the emperors to the people of Rome. Those made to the soldiers were not called congiaries but donatives. The legend on medals representing congiaries, is Congiarium or Liberaltas. Tiberius gave a congiary of three hundred pieces of money to each citizen; Caligula twice gave three hundred sesterces a head; Nero, whose congiaries are the first that we find represented on medals, gave four hundred.