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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.

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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