Rev.6:6 - KJV vs NIV

Rev.6:6 KJV accurately says:

"...a MEASURE [Grecian measure] of wheat for a PENNY [Denarius - Roman penny]..."

But the NIV takes great liberties by misrendering it:

"...a quart of wheat for a day's wages..."

The KJV rendering implies that the prophecy might have been fulfilled at a time when the Grecian measure and Roman Denarius were still in use, and in a place where they were in use - i.e., potentially somewhere in the Roman empire at a time soon after writing.

But the NIV misrendering makes it possible for the prophecy to be fulfilled virtually anywhere and at any time past or future.

Could modern Bible-versions therefore be one reason why in recent generations we have seen the emergence of new, futurist end-times theories previously unknown to the great reformers, revivalists, standard Bible-commentators, pioneer missionaries and evangelists of the Church?