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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2028073, member: 19463&quot;]I was in a waiting room today and read a very short piece in August 2014 National Geographic about the discovery of a &#039;contract&#039; document in which an athlete agreed to throw a match in return for 38,000 drachmas.&nbsp; It dated to the time of Gallienus and was from Egypt.&nbsp; That was interesting but most interesting was a comment by the author of the piece claiming that this was a small amount of money - about the cost of a donkey.&nbsp; I have trouble with that.&nbsp; This would be the equivalent of 9500 tetradrachms of Alexandria of the type many of us here collect.&nbsp; To me, that would be one expensive donkey.&nbsp; Has anyone seen anything on the buying power of Alexandrian drachms?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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