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Fiscus was the treasury of the Roman Empire. It was initially the personal wealth of the emperors, funded by taxation on the imperial provinces, assumption of estates and other privileges. By the thir
Coin (c. 38 BCE) showing a fiscus to the right of a hasta publica (auction pike) and sella quaestoria (auditor's bench)
Comes
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Comes, translated as count, was a Roman title, generally linked to a comitatus or comital office.
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…He also created the fiscus Iudaicus, to which the Jewish population was subjected. Comes Congiarium…
Constantine I SOLI INVICTO COMITI (Comes to Sol Invictus)
13th-century inscription in Trento Cathedral, reading Iacobus comes, "Count James"