What a Day's Wage Should Be Calculated As

Tiberius used force to reclaim all this coinage and bring it back to himself. Why was he doing it? Well, long term, what happened was that old coinage got largely melted down and re issued under successive emperors. Nero gave people back these freshly minted coins and was like, the look, it's so valuable. Except he actually stripped it of value and used it for his own vanity projects.