A days wage coin

[rainy day]

As I am sure you all know. We used to work for a single silver denarius for a hard days labour. Some say the denarius was 4.5 grams, some say 1/10th of an ounce of silver. Can we buy coins this size? If not would it be a good idea to start making them again?

 

[spannermonkey]

Have you bothered to even look ?

 

[GoldenEye]

There was someone making Per Diem 1/10oz rounds (pic below), but not sure if they're still in business. There's not a lot of fractional silver out there and it's usually expensive.

 

[slavaja]

I would love to see move reproductions of ancient silver coins.

 

[jroly]

Picking up Australian predecimal silver is likely the most affordable way to invest in fractional or the US junk coins. Looks like the 50% shilling is the closest in silver content to the denarius at just under 1/10th an ounce.

Coin Type Minted Silver / Coin (Oz) Quantity Total Silver Weight
92.5% Threepence
1910 - 1944
0.0419

50% Threepence
1947 - 1964
0.0227

92.5% Sixpence
1910 - 1945
0.0839

50% Sixpence
1946 - 1963
0.0453

92.5% Shilling
1910 - 1944
0.1680

50% Shilling
1946 - 1963
0.0908

92.5% Florin
1910 - 1945
0.3364

50% Florin
1946 - 1963
0.1818

Crown
1937 - 1938
0.8407

 

[Golden ChipMunk]

Day Wages pay in Gold Please; prefer 1 oz.

 

[GoldenEye]

Picking up Australian predecimal silver is likely the most affordable way to invest in fractional or the US junk coins. Looks like the 50% shilling is the closest in silver content to the denarius at just under 1/10th an ounce.

The most easily recognised and cheapest fractional silver in Australia.

 

[rainy day]

A lot of the world still works for 1/10th of an ounce or a few dollars a day. Somehow at some point in the past the western world group of countries greatly increased the value of their currency artificially. How?

 

[jroly]

A lot of the world still works for 1/10th of an ounce or a few dollars a day. Somehow at some point in the past the western world group of countries greatly increased the value of their currency artificially. How?

Hardly, the 3rd world is very inefficient, for example someones job is carrying water in buckets from a river to the market each day, just back and forth all day, can't expect to be paid much for doing that. Also silver is not as rare as it was in ancient times, someone had to dig it out with a pick, today machines do it and extract more in greater amounts.

 

[GoldenEye]

Buy Per Diem here:

https://www.silverstackers.com/foru...ction-75-fantastical-fractional-silver.98337/

 

[Alloy]

A tenth ounce is a standard size for fractional silver rounds, along with a quarter ounce. In the US, the major dealers usually carry them, like Silver.com, JM Bullion, APMEX, et al. I'm not sure what the norm is in Oz.

https://www.silver.com/1-10-oz-silver-monarch-egyptian-nefertiti-rounds/

Premiums tend be brutal on fractional silver though.

American junk silver, old circulation coinage, bounces around a tenth ounce, with quarters being 0.18 oz and dimes at 0.07 oz.

 

[dozerz]

why not just buy the original denarius? plenty of these ancients around and afordable.

 

[Ghost]

A lot of the world still works for 1/10th of an ounce or a few dollars a day. Somehow at some point in the past the western world group of countries greatly increased the value of their currency artificially. How?

Magic...