CENTESĬMA

namely pars , or the hundredth part, also called vectigal rerum venalium , or centesima rerum venalium , was a tax of one per cent. levied at Rome and in Italy upon all goods that were exposed for public sale at auctions. It was collected by persons called coactores . This tax was perhaps introduced after the civil war between Marius and Sulla. Its produce was a igned by August us to the aerarium mil it are . Tiberius reduced the tax to one half per cent. ( ducentesima ), after he had changed Cappadocia into a province, and had thereby increased the revenue of the empire. Caligula in the beginning of his reign abolished the tax altogether for Italy.