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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2800684, member: 59677&quot;]First off, I meant what I said, because a Roman soldier was paid the same across the entire empire and that implies a rough ability to assign parity across wide swaths of the ancient world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, you are completely wrong. There is no magic government telling people what things are worth or what to exchange for what. It&#039;s an open market. Everybody knows the value of things in terms of other things including coins. The coins are simply a shortcut to effect exchange of these things out of sight.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m done here...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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