Not merely food rents, but far more taxation in kind generally. Paper-based financial systems require paper (not yet available in Rome) and really printing (not yet available anywhere). If you want to see how silver-stressed the Roman monetary system had become, see here.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fineness_of_early_Roman_Imperial_silver_coins.png
Not merely food rents, but far more taxation in kind generally. Paper-based financial systems require paper (not yet available in Rome) and really printing (not yet available anywhere). If you want to see how silver-stressed the Roman monetary system had become, see here.
Not merely food rents, but far more taxation in kind generally. Paper-based financial systems require paper (not yet available in Rome) and really printing (not yet available anywhere). If you want to see how silver-stressed the Roman monetary system had become, see here.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fineness_of_early_Roman_Imperial_silver_coins.png