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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3196544, member: 93416&quot;]In the blog you say:</p><p><br /></p><p>RRDen &gt; The display shows one week&#039;s pay in the large pan of the steelyard scale = 21 Asses = 6900 grams = 15 US pounds.</p><p><br /></p><p>Great that you are getting into this stuff - but this conclusion does not seem plausible to me.&nbsp; Are you taking Polybius as a starter - thus 3 asses per soldier per day? If so I thought this was only true after 200 BC or so.&nbsp; Where 3 asses a day was about 2 and a bit Denarii a week.&nbsp; So less than 10 grams of silver - with silver in roughly the region of 100:1 against copper by weight - comes out at about a kilo of copper a week, so approx 1000g</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I kind of suspect once you get into the nitty gritty of deductions it may well have been substantially less than even that - but would be keen to hear from anybody with any different informed view.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp;&nbsp; 1000g is approx 2.2 US (= Phoenician) pounds[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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