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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]
However, the total net worth of each star 20 years after the series ended may come as a shock. CNBC analyzed scripts and calculated Jerry Seinfeld made a whopping $13,000 per line by the final season.
If you had invested $10,000 of today’s dollars in Apple when the company went public at $22 a share, your investment would now be worth $32.7 million, ...
According to wage rates from 377 BC, a talent was the value of nine man-years of skilled work. [8] This corresponds to 2340 work days or 11.1 grams (0.36 ozt) of silver per worker per workday. The Attic talent, corresponding with the standard, would change throughout the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Period, subsequently ...
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 ...
Since not all salaries are made public, this is a non-definitive list of actors who have received $30 million or more as compensation for their services in a single production. Occasionally an actor's fee may cover multiple films, and they are included on the list if the films were filmed as a back-to-back production (for example, Keanu Reeves ...