Edict on Maximum Prices
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The Edict on Maximum Prices was issued in 301 by Diocletian. The document denounces greed and sets maximum prices and wages for all important articles and services.
Modern painted cast of one of the copies of the edict (Antikensammlung Berlin)
One of four pieces of the edict (in Greek) re-used in the door frame of the medieval Church of St. John Chrysostomos in Geraki
Argenteus
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The argenteus was a silver coin produced by the Roman Empire from the time of Diocletian's coinage reform in AD 294 to ca. AD 310. It was of similar weight and fineness to the denarius of the time of
Edict on Maximum Prices
…represents the ratio of the coin in the column to the coin in the row: thus 1000 denarii were worth 1 solidus. Diocletian values (301–305 A.D.) Solidus Argenteus Nummus Radiate Laureate Denarius Solidus 1 10 40 200 500 1,000 Argenteus 1/10 1 4 20 50 100 Nummus 1/40 1/4 1 5 121⁄2 25 Radiate 1/200 1/20 1/5 1 21⁄2…
Argenteus struck under Constantius Chlorus, weighing 3.36 g.