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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1004868, member: 26302&quot;]Agreed Doug. It is very hard to quantify exchange rates, even though many ask. How I came up with my estimation was the fact that a denarius was a day&#039;s pay for a soldier, these coins were usually coined onto Roman denari, making the denomination a denarius not a tetradrachm, a roman soldier was a close approximation for modern societies&#039; idea of middle class, and 9/30th of a months wages is not an unreasonable sum for food considering food used to be a higher cost relative to budgets than they are today. Look 100 years ago and see what percentage of budgets went to food, it was much higher before modern agricultural techniques. Also, I have seen prices of food in Roman Italy at the time, (Pompeii), and 9 denari for a family would not have been extravagent eating for a month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, just wanted to explain to everyone where my estimate came from, as I have a bad habit of doing all of that in my head from various sources. Here is a source I found giving some prices at various times in history:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ancientcoins.biz/pages/economy/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ancientcoins.biz/pages/economy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ancientcoins.biz/pages/economy/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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