July 2011 edited July 2011 in Engineering Majors. I'm not saying I'm going to go into it, I'm just curios what you guys think. I'm either going to become a Mechanical or Aerospace engineer  they both interest me a lot.
This denarius contained an average 4.5 grams, or 1 â 72 of a Roman pound of silver. It formed the backbone of Roman currency throughout the Roman republic. The denarius began to undergo slow debasement toward the end of the republican period. Under the rule of Augustus, (63 BC-AD 14) its silver content fell to 3.9 grams (a theoretical weight of 1 â 84 of a Roman pound). It remained at nearly this weight until the time of Nero (AD 37-68), when it was reduced to 1 â 96 of a
constantine s solidus was struck at a rate of 72 to a roman pound of about 326 6 g of pure gold each coin weighed 24 greco roman carats 189 mg each or about 4 5 grams of gold per coin by this time the solidus was worth 275000 increasingly debased denarii