collybus

• I Prop., Cic. Att. 12, 6, 1; Cassiod. Parm. ap. Suet. Aug. 4.—
• II Meton., the rate or premium of exchange, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 78, § 181.

• , κόλλυβος, exchange, agio.— The rate of exchange.

CO´LLYBUS(κόλλυβος, less correctly κόλλυβον, Poll. 9.72), the smallest copper coin at Athens, the fourth of the Chalcus. (Aristoph. Pax, 1200; Eupol. ap. Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac. 1176; Callim. ap. Poll. l. c.). Collybus seems to have been a common name for small money, since it signified generally changing money, the rate of exchange, and κολλυβιστής, a money-changer. (Cic. Ver. 3.7. 8, 181, ad Att. 12.6; Poll. 3.84, 7.170; St. Matt. 21.12; ARGENTARIIp. 179 b; Hussey, Ancient Weights and Money, p. 115; Hultsch, Metrologie, p. 166.)

(κόλλυβος). The smallest copper coin at Athens; the fourth of the chalcus (q. v.). Collybus seems to have been a common name for small money, since it signified generally “changing money,” “the rate of exchange,” and κολλυβιστής, “a money-changer.” See trapezitae.