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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3016645, member: 19463&quot;]For several years in Rome, a denarius was a day&#039;s pay more or less for a low ranking soldier.&nbsp; Today a Private E1 charts at about $77 a day.&nbsp; Both soldiers also got benefits to cover some expenses over the base pay.&nbsp; For $77 today we can buy many denarii if we avoid the rarities and higher grade coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; An oarsman in the Athenian navy got three obols to a drachm a day (depending where you read).&nbsp; It would require very low grade coins to buy this amount today but this hemidrachm (3 obols) is close at $50 a decade ago.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749131[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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