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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 ...
"Talent": Each was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms. [21] By comparing the value of 10,000 talents of silver to the annual income of the Persian empire, which according to Herodotus (Histories 3.95) was "14,500 Euboic talents", it seems that Haman is offering the king a bribe equal to two-thirds of the royal income. [22]
An Attic weight talent was about 25.8 kilograms (57 lb). Friedrich Hultsch estimated a weight of 26.2 kg, [25] and Dewald (1998) offers an estimate of 26.0 kg. [26] An Attic talent of silver was the value of nine man-years of skilled work, according to known wage rates from 377 BC. [27]
How much would your initial investment of $1,000 be worth today if you had held on for the entire 10 years? You might want to sit down first. The total comes to over $201,000.
$10,000 bills are extremely rare and have thus become valuable collector’s items. For example, no more than 336 of the 1928 and 1934 series $10,000 Federal Reserve notes are known to have survived.
If you'd bought $10,000 worth of Amazon stock 10 years ago, today your investment would be worth more than $114,690. With that, Amazon proves it's made a great long-term holding. But now the ...
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 1999, his net worth was just $30 billion. Today, it’s nearly four times greater at $116 billion, as per Bloomberg. ... Buffett once said that if he were starting again today with $10,000, he ...