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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 6318094, member: 87200&quot;]Fascinating snippet. Some things never change. When my Dad was serving on a destroyer back in the early 60&#039;s he had scrip money that was used for paying for tobacco at the ship&#039;s store, along with a variety of other items like chocolate bars and chewing gum. I only know about this since I went through all of his military papers after he passed away back in 2018. It appears it was deducted from his paycheck. So I guess we can surmise that no one was getting rich serving in the Roman military at the time unless you were a senior officer.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a portion of the notitia dignitatum from the late 4th/early 5th century that lists pay scales for palace officials, eunuchs, and military officials like the <i>magister peditum </i>and<i> magister equitem. </i>Anyway, the document is a fascinating read of all of the offices, both civil service and military throughout the empire. Obviously the bureaucracy was formidable at the time. There was even an office of <i>master of the sacred bedchamber</i>, something like a high chamberlain to the emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s worth a look. The document states that the army had 554,000 men around the year 400 A.D.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/notitiadignitatum.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/notitiadignitatum.asp" rel="nofollow">https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/notitiadignitatum.asp</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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