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In Golarion:
The Adventurer's Armory prices eyeglasses at 5 gp. "Also known as spectacles, eyeglasses compensate for poor vision or magnify small details".
For comparison with the Florentine pricing, a mason is a hireling earning 1-3 gp/day, so if anything, eyeglasses were likely overpriced to get a nice round number. Or these could represent a nicer example with fine-quality glass crystal.
Speculation:
Who should have them, or where should they be available? Given Golarion's kitchen-sink but largely Renaissance level of technology (full plate and rapiers), eyeglasses should be readily available anywhere that has a semi-literate public. Remote, wild, and untamed areas likely don't have them, but then again, it's going to be hard to buy ink and spellbooks in Mammoth Lord territory anyway. Any townsfolk/bourgeois/tradesman should be able to readily afford them, and farmers or commoners could certainly save up for them or acquire a lesser-quality example.
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The real question is how much glass is made by wizards casting lighting bolt?
I had my half-orc buy a pair of glasses because it amused me to think that one of the big reasons orcs are the way they are is because they're mostly too farsighted to learn to read.
The image of a hulking brute of a half-orc pulling out a pair of glasses and reading as well as anybody, and being skilled at a few Knowledge skills, was also a part of it.