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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4895216, member: 19463&quot;]Shorth answer:&nbsp; Not much.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only question harder to answer is why anyone would pay several times a coin&#039;s current value to have it slabbed.&nbsp; Inflation was bad in the time of Valentinian and a century before or after so we might say that coin would buy a loaf of bread but we might have to be vague about where and what kind of bread you meant.&nbsp; We have records on he purchasing power of coins from a few places and times but nothing that can answer the question as easily as we would like. </p><p><br /></p><p>If someone really wants to get answers to a question like this, they might think to provide a link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/5872602-263/NGCAncients/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/5872602-263/NGCAncients/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/5872602-263/NGCAncients/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, we can do the legwork but should that be our job or the person asking the question?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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