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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1571530, member: 26302&quot;]If someone wished to simply see how debasement affected pricing, I believe a simplistic study would be to take the metrics of coinage and lay them against soldier&#039;s pay, (something there is a lot of data for). Soldiers generally got treated fairly in the Roman empire, (if an emperor wished to stay in power), so using their salaries as a proxy for general price levels would be a simple form of inflation assumptions. The only caveat would be to use only general soldier&#039;s pay, and also account for any commodities they received in addition to cash payments.</p><p><br /></p><p>The metrics as to commodity value of metal coinage can be found in loads of places as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ardatirion, I know it would not be perfect, but just suggesting a simpler method of making this comparison if this is what he is getting at. If Juan is trying to blame major price spikes of grain only on currency debasement, I would never buy such an argument unless supplemented with other commodity pricing since to do so would completely ignore weather conditions, (something which with $7.50 corn this year the US should be well aware of).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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