or FOLLIS, anciently signified a little bag or purse; whence it came to be used for a sum of money, and very different sums were called by that name: thus the scholiast on the Baffites mentions a follis of copper which was worth but the 24th part of the millarenfis; the glotte nomiae, quoted by Gronovius and others, one of 125 millarenfes, and another of 250 denarii, which was the ancient felttertum; and three different sums of eight, four, and two pound of gold, were each each called follis. According to the account of the scholiast, the ounce of silver, which contained five milliaries of 60 in the pound, was worth 120 folles of copper. The gloflographer, describing a follis of 250 denarii, says it was equal to 312 pounds 6 ounces of copper, and as the denarius of that age was the 8th part of an ounce, an ounce of silver must have been worth 120 ounces of copper; and therefore the scholiast's follis was an ounce of copper, and equal to the gloflographer's nummus. But as Constantine's copper money weighed a quarter of a Roman ounce, the scholiast's follis and the gloflographer's nummus contained four of them, as the ancient nummus contained four asses.