Sesterces is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 159 anagrams from letters in sesterces (ceeerssst).
1590-1600; Latin sēstertius, equivalent to sēs- half-unit (see sesqui-) + tertius third (i.e., 2 units and half a 3rd one equal 2½ asses)
Once let the mob overtake them, and the lives of all three were not worth a sesterce.
But since I have won every sesterce he owns I must needs pay for his board.
"You will never get a sesterce of Cornelia's dowry," he declared.
A sesterce is four and one-half cents so that the possible price of a peach in Rome 1900 years ago was $1.35.
And the fourth part of it, consisting of two asses and half of a third, they called "sesterce."