">Sun Tzu in The Art of War stated that you could have a 100,000 man army for 1000 ozs of silver a day. i.e. 1/100th of an ounce of silver per man per day.
>In the American Revolution, the King of England had a ranson on Samuel Adams head for about 10 oz’s of silver.
>The “Rise and fall of the Roman Empire” stated that the “Barbarians at the gate” were asking for a ton of silver not to sack Rome and the Romans couldn’t come up with it.
>At the turn of the century the average worker made 1/10 oz silver a day.
>In the Bible it states field workers made one Denarius a day which is about 1/10 of an ounce of silver.
>Two thirds of the world today lives off about $2 a day with also equates to roughly 1/10 oz of silver.
>The Louisiana Purchase: when Thomas Jefferson bought almost 1/3 of the United States. He paid about 1 oz of silver for about 45 acres of bare land.
There’s only about 8 billion ounces of arable land on earth. The above ground stock of silver is estimated to only be about a billion ounces. So if all things were equal you’d get 8 acres of land for 1 oz of silver."