It wasn’t. But it still was valuable in a sense because salt provided the best-known food preservative at the time, especially for meat, allowing there was no refrigeration.

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It is widely, though incorrectly, believed that troops in the Roman army were paid in salt. Even widely-respected historical works repeat this error.

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