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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1364854, member: 26302"]I was curious Cloud, so this link is what I found. Its maximum prices from Diocletians Edict, so basically price controls like Nixon tried, and like Nixon's they were a failure. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/content/view/79/98/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/content/view/79/98/" rel="nofollow">http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/content/view/79/98/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It lists prices of various things in "dc", but at the bottom gives you conversion rates to a gold coin. Doesn't really answer the toga question, but then again by this time togas were not worn commonly in the Roman empire. Interesting link, though, but I would double the prices since these are price control prices, which basically means if you actually wanted to buy something you had to pay black market prices. Politicians never change, they keep using tried and failed policies over time, huh?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1364854, member: 26302"]I was curious Cloud, so this link is what I found. Its maximum prices from Diocletians Edict, so basically price controls like Nixon tried, and like Nixon's they were a failure. [url]http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/content/view/79/98/[/url] It lists prices of various things in "dc", but at the bottom gives you conversion rates to a gold coin. Doesn't really answer the toga question, but then again by this time togas were not worn commonly in the Roman empire. Interesting link, though, but I would double the prices since these are price control prices, which basically means if you actually wanted to buy something you had to pay black market prices. Politicians never change, they keep using tried and failed policies over time, huh?[/QUOTE]
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