Mark makes a very good point, which I think reinforces the idea that
trying to put a modern value on the money of 2000 years ago is
probably a pretty hopeless task.
Richard Ellam
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On 20 Jul 2011, at 11:33, Mark Weber wrote:
> There's also all the non-cash elements (gifts of land, shares in gains
> from conquered territory, etc) that a (successful) solider could
> expect.
> Money itself was never the only driving force in the Roman economy,
> and how 'well off' someone was will not relate simply to paid money.
>
> On 20 July 2011 11:11, Richard Ellam
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> HI Julie
>> This is very difficult to answer because we 'need' so many more
>> things to
>> make life bearable than a Roman Squaddie did - so we need much
>> more money to
>> pay for them. A better approach may be to ask what a denarius
>> would have
>> bought, and from this to go on to ask whether our Roman Solider
>> would have
>> had enough money from his salary to be able to support a family,
>> or to save
>> for his old age, or whether his pay was just enough to live on?
>> Did he have to pay 'deductions', such as messing and for equipment
>> out of
>> his cash?
>> How did his pay compare with that of his superiors? (it might be
>> worth
>> making a comparison with modern British army salary differentials
>> where
>> private gets about £20k, and the head of the armed forces about
>> £245 k pa).
>> Indeed, were officers paid, or were they expected to be able to
>> support
>> themselves from private incomes?
>> And how did a solider's pay compare with what you could earn in civvy
>> street?
>> This approach gives a much better idea of how well off a Roman
>> Solider would
>> have though himself than trying to make any kind of conversion of
>> the value
>> of a denarius in to modern cash.
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Regards
>> Richard.
>>
>> Richard Ellam
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>> Greetings from a cloudy Carlisle! Just wondered if anyone out in
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>> I am trying to find out what a denarius would have been worth in
>> modern day
>> money? Perhaps easier if it is 300 denarii? We are compiling
>> information
>> about a Roman soldier’s pay and I think that the visitor would
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>> an idea of what the modern day equivalent is. This may not be
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