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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“At market and fair, all folks do declare,
There is none like the Boy that sold Broom, green Broom.”
—Unknown. Broom, Green Broom (l. 23–24)