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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 7484786, member: 96898&quot;]Wayne Sayles gives the following, very general table of daily income and prices in Athens in the 5th to 4th century BC. It is certainly possible to go into much greater scholarly detail, but this might give you an idea of the purchasing power of an Athenian weight standard drachm in classical Greece:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294929[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">From Wayne Sayles: Ancient Coin Collecting II: Numismatik Art of the Greek World, 2nd ed (Iola: Krause 2007). <b>I recommend buying this book!</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>An octodrachm thus would have been more than the weekly income of a skilled laborer. It would have bought you about 40 liters of wine, 400 pounds of dried figs, or a pair of shoes. Industrialization has certainly changed the market value of some goods![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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