CHAP. ix. CONSUMED BY WEAR. 



We suppose that, in the year 14, the 



gold and silver amounted to . 358,000,000 



Deducting 10 per cent for wear, there would be, 



In the year 50 . . 322,200,000 



86 . . 287,980,000 



122 ... 259,182,000 



158 . . 233,263,800 



194 . 209,937,420 



230 . . .. 181,943,678 



266 . . . 163,749,311 



302 . . . 147,374,380 



338 . . . 132,636,942 



374 . . 119,373,248 



410 ... 107,435,924 



446 . , . 96,692,332 



482 . 87,033,099 



It has before been shown that the whole supplies 

 from the mines of gold and silver had not ceased 

 in the reign of Augustus. Some few of them con- 

 tinued to be worked later, though they yielded 

 but trifling products. Those products would, 

 however, in the earlier years of the period com- 

 prehended in the table, have the effect of lessen- 

 ing the decrease, though, when added to the 

 general mass of metallic money, they would be- 

 come subject to the same rate of decrease. 



The fluctuation in the value of the aureus, 

 which is before noticed, will in some degree be 

 illustrated by this table, though that fluctuation 

 may riot exactly correspond with the scale of 

 the decrease of the quantity of money in circu- 

 lation. That piece of money in the reign of Au- 

 gustus, when the whole quantity of money is sup> 



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