Endnote 5 – 26 Tons of Gold and 65 Tons of Silver: Too Much To Believe?

Suetonius, Julius Caesar 54.2, in Lives of the Caesars; M. A. Frederickson, “Caesar, Cicero and the Problem of Debt,” Journal of Roman Studies 56 (1966), p. 132. In practice the value of gold some times fell to 1:10 and in the late empire rose to 1:18, but for our purposes a single figure is good enough.