Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias
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…double, its ready availability would make sense of the fact that the bottom end of the range of prices in the Prices Edict seems to think in multiples of 2. The first Currency Edict is, after the titulature…
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…been held that the Diocletianic silver coin was substantially overvalued after it had been doubled in face value in AD 301.12 Nor is this the only problem: the Prices Edict explicitly states that gold was…
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…both of ‘just price’ and ‘true price’. Given that they are responses to queries, one wonders whether the price-rises of the third century had led to the emergence of a notion of ‘proper price’, queries which…
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…9 rarity of the solidus. I have no explanation for the apparently low prices for luxuries in the Prices Edict as compared with earlier periods. At this point, we need to consider CJ IV, 44, De rescindenda…
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…sense of a customary price. Thus, when Hadrian regulated the existing right of the Athenian state to preempt a proportion of the annual production of olive-oil, he specified that the price to be paid was that…