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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3197314, member: 93416&quot;]Since hardly anyone on the planet seems to be looking into our mutual interest here, I sure do not want to fall out with you over this!</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, for now, I am sticking to my guess that realistic payments would probably be less than 1 KG per week per guy in copper (Polybius). That seem to be what they got paid in value around 200 BC, so is my best guess for 400 BC too. S Tullius 540 BC seems to me, well, not as mythological as Britain&#039;s King Brut - but all the same, not fully historical either - kind of like Solon in Greece in that - and in other ways too.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can dig out further sources on this matter I would be pleased to get them</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes - I agree that is really interesting. Made me think. I have always been strongly opposed to the idea that &quot;coins were first struck to pay soldiers&quot; - that seems to me to be just too simplistic.</p><p><br /></p><p>However - if you soften it a bit - something like - the plebs refused to fight unless they got paid - we can start to see how that might be one of the important element in the factors that combined to bring on the coin using society.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a bunch more things to say about Roman weight standards - I hope we can discuss it again down the line?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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