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<p>[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 7593174, member: 112342"]<a href="https://www.academia.edu/23644199/New_English_translation_of_the_Price_Edict_of_Diocletianus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/23644199/New_English_translation_of_the_Price_Edict_of_Diocletianus" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/23644199/New_English_translation_of_the_Price_Edict_of_Diocletianus</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/worth-purchasing-power-ancient-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/worth-purchasing-power-ancient-coins/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/worth-purchasing-power-ancient-coins/</a></p><p>Although by the time of Diocletian the denarius ceased to exist, he issued a new short lived silver coin called Argenteus, with the same purity of 1st century denarius.</p><p>And one argentues equaled 100 denarius communis, which I assume were just the bronze follis of that time, and he issued an edict ordering merchants the price at which to sell their goods.</p><p>So if we translated the price list to a couple of centuries back, I'm pretty sure a denarius, let's say during the time of the Flavians would get you a week's worth of groceries if you were a vegetarian, or a nice dinner with fruits, meat and wine for the day.</p><p>Or a visit to a dinky brothel house<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 7593174, member: 112342"][URL]https://www.academia.edu/23644199/New_English_translation_of_the_Price_Edict_of_Diocletianus[/URL] [URL]https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/worth-purchasing-power-ancient-coins/[/URL] Although by the time of Diocletian the denarius ceased to exist, he issued a new short lived silver coin called Argenteus, with the same purity of 1st century denarius. And one argentues equaled 100 denarius communis, which I assume were just the bronze follis of that time, and he issued an edict ordering merchants the price at which to sell their goods. So if we translated the price list to a couple of centuries back, I'm pretty sure a denarius, let's say during the time of the Flavians would get you a week's worth of groceries if you were a vegetarian, or a nice dinner with fruits, meat and wine for the day. Or a visit to a dinky brothel house;)[/QUOTE]
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