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More significantly, 10,000 (a myriad) was the highest Greek numeral, and a talent the largest unit of currency, [1] so that 10,000 talents was the largest easily described debt (for comparison, the combined annual tribute of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea around this time was only 600 talents, [2] and one denarius was a day's wages, [2] so that ...
As a unit of currency, a talent was worth about 6,000 denarii. [1] A denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour. [1] At one denarius per day, a single talent was therefore worth 20 years of labor (assuming a 6-day work week, because nobody would work on the weekly Sabbath).
In later times in Greece, it represented a much larger weight, approximately 3,000 times as much: an Attic talent was approximately 26.0 kilograms (57 lb 5 oz). [2] The word also came to be used as the equivalent of the Middle Eastern kakkaru or kikkar. A Babylonian talent was 30.2 kg (66 lb 9 oz). [3]
If you could hold onto that 5.00% rate (more on that in a moment) for 10 years and earn daily compounded interest, your $10,000 would become $16,486 in 10 years. Now for the bad news.
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During the Peloponnesian War, a trireme crew of 200 rowers was paid a talent for a month's worth of work, one drachma, or 4.3 grams of silver per rower per day. [7] According to wage rates from 377 BC, a talent was the value of nine man-years of skilled work. [8]
If someone were to ask you what the largest dollar bill in the U.S. was what would you say? Many might answer that the largest bill is the $100. However, while that is the largest bill currently ...