05-05-2019, 08:34 AM
Last night, talking in the pub, I met a geordie who reckoned his grandfather had found a Severan sestertius whilst digging footings in Wallsend. After some speculation about how much it would be worth today we wondered how much beer it would have bought in the third century at Wallsend. Geordie reckoned a man could get drunk for a week and I thought less. Who was nearer?
