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To: chajin

“OK, serious question: how much would such a coin have been worth in its day? The article doesn’t say, except that it would have been “extremely valuable,” which is a given.”

1 gold Aureus = 25 silver Denarius
A denarius equaled 1 - 3 days wages for a Roman soldier

23 posted on 09/16/2016 9:57:19 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)

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To: TexasRepublic

Denarius...didn’t he play for the New Orleans Saints ?

24 posted on 09/16/2016 10:05:17 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)

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To: TexasRepublic

1 gold Aureus = 25 silver Denarius

Thanks

26 posted on 09/16/2016 10:19:40 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)

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