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.

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