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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4860636, member: 87404&quot;]Very cool table!</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s compare this to our standard 40 hour, 5 day work week (inaccurately, cuz I&#039;m sure the average ancient person worked more?). So an Annual Wage (regardless of pay cadence) would be 250-288 drachms, or about 4.8-5.5 drachm per week, or 0.96-1.1 drachm per day (roughly 1/day for this exercise). And if 1 drachm is about 20 of your bronze coin, you can think the ancient person earned 20 of them per day or like 2.5 per hour (considering an 8-hr workday). </p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s consider, say, an &quot;average Joe or Jane&quot; working at Aldi with a starting $14/hr wage, your coin would be worth about $5.60 USD. Or if the above person they are referring to is a skilled craftsman and earns $40/hr in modern terms, meaning your coin is worth $16 USD. <font size="3"><span style="color: #b30000"><i>**this is just my own math and breakdown as a way to <u><b>illustrate the concepts</b></u>, and the actuals are very likely flawed.**. </i></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>What this <i><u>does</u></i> show you is that coinage in ancient civilization was more similar to our modern day bills rather than our coins as change.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fun to think about though, certainly!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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