Why was salt so expensive in ancient times (close to it's ...
(a gold Louis coin was worth 24 livres, I'm assuming 24 livres for a minot of salt because we have to do something, and that's what it was about in Lorraine). Of course that's not pure gold either, it was 22 carat for grams, so really it's grams of gold making the gold worth about 11,400x more than salt.