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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1890565, member: 19463"]That can be the hardest question since most people forget that Roman coins were in use for almost a thousand years and things changed almost as often as the gas stations change the pump prices. Harl's <b>Coinage in the Roman Economy</b> is a good book but most will come away from it wondering why we have so little concrete information. </p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Coinage_in_the_Roman_Economy_300_B_C_to.html?id=5yPDL0EykeAC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Coinage_in_the_Roman_Economy_300_B_C_to.html?id=5yPDL0EykeAC" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books/about/Coinage_in_the_Roman_Economy_300_B_C_to.html?id=5yPDL0EykeAC</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The answer I use most is to ask how much a 2000 sq. ft. house costs in New York City or in some small town in Arkansas. How much is an orange in Florida or in Alaska? How much did a small hamburger cost at McDonalds in 1954 and how much today? I once was asked by a Latin class making a class newspaper how much made sense to print as the price on the masthead. They realized the printing press was a few years off but we discussed the matter a bit and decided on a quadrans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1890565, member: 19463"]That can be the hardest question since most people forget that Roman coins were in use for almost a thousand years and things changed almost as often as the gas stations change the pump prices. Harl's [B]Coinage in the Roman Economy[/B] is a good book but most will come away from it wondering why we have so little concrete information. [url]http://books.google.com/books/about/Coinage_in_the_Roman_Economy_300_B_C_to.html?id=5yPDL0EykeAC[/url] The answer I use most is to ask how much a 2000 sq. ft. house costs in New York City or in some small town in Arkansas. How much is an orange in Florida or in Alaska? How much did a small hamburger cost at McDonalds in 1954 and how much today? I once was asked by a Latin class making a class newspaper how much made sense to print as the price on the masthead. They realized the printing press was a few years off but we discussed the matter a bit and decided on a quadrans.[/QUOTE]
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