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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1221636, member: 19409&quot;]To answer some of your other questions, &quot;denarius&quot; is the name of the denomination, and it&#039;s indeed silver.&nbsp; The exact buying power of the denarius varied over time, like most denominations do.&nbsp; According to Kenneth W. Harl&#039;s <i>Coinage in the Roman Economy</i>, the base pay for a legionary was 112.5 denarii during the period of 141 BC to 46 BC, when Julius Caesar doubled it.&nbsp; We don&#039;t have that much price inormation, but Harl indicates that it would probably take them about 5 days wage (25 asses) during this period to buy a month&#039;s supply of grain.&nbsp; This coin was worth 16 asses, so it was definitely not small change.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Galley&quot; indeed refers to the boat, and &quot;Sear&quot; is the author of one of the standard references for Roman coins (Roman Coins and Their Values), and the number is the reference number this type of coin was assigned.&nbsp; Unfortunately, he&#039;s put out several different editions, so it can be hard to tell which is being referenced sometimes.&nbsp; I&#039;d think that it&#039;s the most recent one, but I don&#039;t have a way to confirm this.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For guides, ancients in general are more complicated than modern coins.&nbsp; The dies were all hand carved, so there&#039;s a huge amount of variation, and different guides will use different standards to determine exactly what makes a coin different.&nbsp; In addition, condition, strike, and style have a lot more variation, making it a bit harder to get firm prices.&nbsp; There are indeed price guides for certain specific areas of ancient coins, but there isn&#039;t a guide that covers nearly all of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>For sites to check out, <a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/</a> is one of the best sites to start with, as is <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/ancientcoins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/ancientcoins.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/ancientcoins.html</a> .&nbsp; For attribution, <a href="http://wildwinds.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wildwinds.com/</a> is great.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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