Fantastic to see this being kept and hopefully make it to display

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    2 months ago

    It would funny for whoever minted that to learn that it would later be worth £15,000. Absolutely do not explain the concept of inflation beforehand

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      2 months ago

      Inflation wasn’t a thing before modern banking and interest rates, things rose and fell with demand solely! I do believe the wages of a 5th C worker were not too dissimilar to a 17th C worker