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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2401542, member: 19463&quot;]We should not be amazed that prices changed over the years in Rome.&nbsp; Look what has happened to your dollar/pound etc. over the same number of years.&nbsp; I find the 10,000 asses for a horse amazing if it was liberal asses since that would be more than the horse weighed. Imperial asses, perhaps, but liberal?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I only have one coin to show and have shown it here many times.&nbsp; It is aes grave cast sextans (half a triens) with turtle and wheel.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]495008[/ATTACH] </p><p>Mine weighs almost exactly what my earliest struck as weighs which is where we get the term &#039;sextantal series&#039; for those struck coins. There were many alterations of standards for bronze coins between the earliest big liberals and the end of the Republic only a couple centuries later.&nbsp; I do not pretend to be able to keep up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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