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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7318841, member: 10461"]It's an interesting question.</p><p><br /></p><p>A middle aged soldier whose skeleton was found at Herculaneum carried three aureii when he died. (See last paragraph <a href="https://moatmtv.weebly.com/herculaneum-skeletons.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://moatmtv.weebly.com/herculaneum-skeletons.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, under "Analysis"). Could he have been considered "middle class"? I don't know. He might have been an officer.</p><p><br /></p><p>More aureii have been <a href="https://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/06/28/archaeologists-discover-skeletons-coins-pompeii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/06/28/archaeologists-discover-skeletons-coins-pompeii/" rel="nofollow">discovered</a> with human remains in Pompeii in the last five years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fascinating stuff, eh?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7318841, member: 10461"]It's an interesting question. A middle aged soldier whose skeleton was found at Herculaneum carried three aureii when he died. (See last paragraph [URL='https://moatmtv.weebly.com/herculaneum-skeletons.html']here[/URL], under "Analysis"). Could he have been considered "middle class"? I don't know. He might have been an officer. More aureii have been [URL='https://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/06/28/archaeologists-discover-skeletons-coins-pompeii/']discovered[/URL] with human remains in Pompeii in the last five years. Fascinating stuff, eh?[/QUOTE]
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