
133 - A Brief History of Inflation In The Roman Empire
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The Real Money Is Food
The real money is food, because that's what gives you life force. That's where you get into commodities. These are hard things that make fuel and eating and existence go. To round out the rome story, though, it got to base all the way down to point zero, five % silver. So they would take coins like this one im gong to put in your hand right now. And that is a fourth century coin. Ohwo and that one right there was,. i don't know what you call it, a silver dip, a silver wash, i think maybe people call it. If i used my imagination, i might be able to see it. It looks brown
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