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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FrizzyAntoine, post: 7310634, member: 114961&quot;]From my understanding it depends heavily on the time and place. In the late roman and byzantine eras a 4.5 gram solidus would be a soldiers annual wage, so the closest most people would come would be dreaming of them. On the other hand a soldier fighting under Cyrus the Younger or Alexander III would net one or more darics/staters weighing nearly double that every month. </p><p><br /></p><p>But of course, middle class people back then, much like today, would not have been swimming in gold coins or gold anything. It&#039;s impractical to pay for a day or even weeks worth of rations with even the smallest gold coin, so bronze and silver would have been the mainstays. Not to mention only the highest earners would have enough spare money to save a significant amount, with most people living hand to mouth and day to day (seems some things never change huh).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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