"Nero Caesar, Average Imp"? I would think he was much worse.
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.
P.S. Why is it that every time I open a web link from FR, one of the ads on the page is anti-Trump? You'd think their systems could discern that spending money on such ads posted to someone coming from FR would be a waste.
“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
It’s hard to quantify the relative value of money from antiquity into modern currency because the economy was so very different. But there is an interesting article at (of course) Wikipedia, Roman Currency...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency