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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7753155, member: 115909&quot;]Well I mean it’s known as a historical fact that Caligula spent 1 <b>B</b>illion sesterces in the first year of his reign alone. O_O</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s 250 million denarii coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s not like they had electronic banking back then so everything he spent would have had to be in cold hard cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can totally imagine him giving a merchant a handful of gold aureii coins for several amphorae of Falernian wine. The very best wine in Rome. Apparently a single sextarius (~0.5 liters) cost 2 denarii and a single cup cost 4 ases.</p><p><br /></p><p>As part of the ruins of ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Pompeii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Pompeii" rel="nofollow">Pompeii</a>, a price list on the wall of a bar establishment notes</p><p><br /></p><p>For one &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/As_(coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/As_(coin)" rel="nofollow">as</a>&quot; you can drink wine</p><p>For two you can drink the best</p><p>For four you can drink Falernian.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;It may not sound like much but it was 2 days wages for the average Roman for a single sextarius of wine. But an Emperor would’ve bought it in large quantities of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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