Argentarius
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
In old English law
A dealer in money; a silversmith. Argentarius miles: a kind of money porter in the exchequer; a person who carried the silver from the lower to the upper exchequer to be examined. In the civil law. A dealer in money; a money-changer; one who received money on deposit and loaned money on interest; a banker.