The Roman Empire collapsed in the year 476 so you're only off by 1,440 years or so :-)
What you have is a BRITISH penny with a picture of the goddess Britannia on the reverse. See the Related Question for more details.
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The monetary unit during the early medieval period in England was the silver penny, of very a strictly-controlled purity and quality known as "stirling". It is impossible to compare the silver penny of, say, 1190 with modern money, since the relative value of goods has changed immensely since that time.If we take the average value of a rough-woolled sheep at that time (6 pence) and compare it to the modern value of a breeding sheep (about £90), this would seem to show that a silver penny was equivalent to £15.If you take the 1190 price of a wooden farm gate (12 pence) and compare it with the modern version (about £200), this seems to say that a penny was equivalent to almost £17.But the value of a top-quality destrier (war horse of a knight) was around 600 pennies; a similar horse today would be valued at between £3,000 and £6,000, making each penny equivalent to between £5 and £10.Clearly there is no direct link between medieval penny values and modern values.
Because they put less gold in them
I would assume you had a typo and misspelled talent, spelling it talen.The talent was a unit of weight invented by theGreekswhich was also adopted by the Romans. The Attic (Greek) talent was 27 kilograms (57 pounds). The Roman talent was 32.3 Kilograms (71 pounds). The talent itself had no value. What had value was the material which wasweighed. Originally, the talent was used to measure the amount of silver that defeated cities had to pay as war indemnity. Later, the talent was also used to weigh gold.Thevalueof a talentdependedonwhetherit was a talent of gold or a talent ofsilverand on the time in history. The Roman Empire lasted for many centuries and the value of gold and silvervariedgreatly over time.One talent, depending on how much an ounce of gold is valued, is approximately (nowadays) $840,000 - $850,000.
The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.The value of an as in today's money (dollars) is just about impossible to determine. The reason for this is that the as was one of the lowest denominations of Roman coinage. Our monetary system is based upon a very different set of values for coins. It's safe to say that the as could be loosely compared to our nickle.
Pounds as a measure of weight were used in many European countries in the Middle Ages. In medieval England, the Pound Sterling was sometimes used as a unit of accounting (currency). Things were, however, not priced in pounds at the time.