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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24548145, member: 101855&quot;]I recently finish a book by Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth, <u>Nero, Matricide, Music and Murder in Imperial Rome</u>. The authors mentions values and payments a number of times. Each time it was in Sestertii, not denarii. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also remember something about the winning bid that Didius Julianus (ruled March to June 193) made when the praetorian guild put &quot;the purple&quot; up for auction. It too was in sestertii. </p><p><br /></p><p>Was the Sestertii the most common used denomination for giving value to goods and services? It seems like the denarius would have been more appropriate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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