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<p>[QUOTE="Nerva, post: 2799510, member: 87761"]Fascinating! As others said, the website left me wanting more. Would an aureus really be enough to live on for a year? Maybe at a subsistence level, it would buy enough bread ... but not sure it's meaningful as a measure of income even of the poorest, is it? Apparently 33k coins known to have been found at Pompeii. I recently read this book on the economy of Pompeii, with a chapter on coins: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198786573/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=21OTLTFWFPXY0&coliid=I1ACZP2N4Z0KU8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198786573/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=21OTLTFWFPXY0&coliid=I1ACZP2N4Z0KU8" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198786573/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=21OTLTFWFPXY0&coliid=I1ACZP2N4Z0KU8</a> It's a fascinating subject, but the writing is a bit dry. Coin chapter looks at coin finds in shops.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nerva, post: 2799510, member: 87761"]Fascinating! As others said, the website left me wanting more. Would an aureus really be enough to live on for a year? Maybe at a subsistence level, it would buy enough bread ... but not sure it's meaningful as a measure of income even of the poorest, is it? Apparently 33k coins known to have been found at Pompeii. I recently read this book on the economy of Pompeii, with a chapter on coins: [url]https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198786573/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=21OTLTFWFPXY0&coliid=I1ACZP2N4Z0KU8[/url] It's a fascinating subject, but the writing is a bit dry. Coin chapter looks at coin finds in shops.[/QUOTE]
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