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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4486442, member: 96635&quot;]As [USER=73473]@Magnus Maximus[/USER] mentioned, big fractions such as tetradrachms in the Greek world were used by Macedon, Seleukid Empire, Attalid kingdom etc. for larger transactions and for the army. If a king would have an army of 50.000 troops, it would be rather more sensible to mint 375.000 tetradrachms than 1.5 million drachms to pay the soldiers each month.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the city Teos for example, somewhere in the Hellenistic time they were building a new wall. The tetradrachms were used to buy resources in bulk such as stone. The hemidrachm was minted as daily wage for the workers. Since this is a temporary project, I understand why the city would pay the workers per day rather than in big fractions.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for as I know a Roman soldier also earned around 1 denarius a day. Not sure why the Romans did not choose to mint larger fractions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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