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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2405715, member: 75525&quot;]MZ - great coin and story!</p><p>I have seen several folks talk about estimates of denarii production. The real answer is we have no mint records and can only guess / estimate. Crawford used economics to guess the number of dies for each denarius. It is odd that he gives different obverse and reverse dies for all coins (because they wore at different rates) even when he sometimes comments that there is only one die combination for an issue.</p><p>30,000 coins per die =&gt; 40 X 30,000 = 1.2 million</p><p>By 74 BC I think Roman Legions were professional soldiers and thus needed to be paid all year. If a soldier made 2 denarii per week = 100 per year, a legion would need 100 X 5,000 = half a million per year. This issue would have kept two legions in the field for the better part of a year.</p><p>I have a book at home and will see the estimate of soldiers and their pay per year and then compare it to coins from the 3 moneyers Crawford placed in the year.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS - found another book googling for this info, anyone have feedback on:</p><p>Money in the Late Roman Republic by David B. Hollander[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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