As (Roman Coin) - Value in The Market

Value in The Market

Here are some example salaries and product costs as of the times of Diocletian in the third century AD:

  • Farm laborer salary, with meals = 400 asses
  • Elementary teacher's salary, per boy = 800 asses
  • Barber's service price, per client = 32 asses
  • 1 kg of pork = 380 asses (1 lb = 170 asses)
  • 1 kg of grapes = 32 asses (1 lb = 15 asses)

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    I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruit, but dollars; who loves not the beauty of his fruits, whose fruits are not ripe for him till they are turned to dollars. Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
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