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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7632061, member: 115909&quot;]Some facts:</p><p><br /></p><p>Under the reign of Tiberius in 14 AD a Roman silver Denarius weighed 3.9 grams and was 97-99% pure silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in 148 AD a Denarius weighed 3.41 grams of 83.5% pure silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>By 241 AD a denarius weighed the same 3.41 grams but of only 48% pure silver.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That means since my Tiberius denarius weighs more AND has twice the purity of the post 241 AD denarii that 1 Tiberius denarius is worth a little more than 2 denarii from post 241 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>So let’s say I’m an Ancient Roman living in 250 AD. I want to buy a denarius worth of bread.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Would I get more bread if I used a denarius from the reign of Tiberius than if I used one minted recently with much lower silver content?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am curious how merchants &amp; people in general dealt with having several different kinds of denarii with all of them having different amounts of silver?</p><p><br /></p><p>Did they have to figure out the silver content of every coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or did Gresham’s Law force everyone to use the most debased denarii they had and keep the good ones with more silver for themselves?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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