[HPforGrownups] Re: Speaking of money

[Iggy McSnurd]

> From: Catlady 
> G'rrr, 1828 isn't coming up just now. Here's 1913:
> http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=denarius
> "A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the
> 'penny' of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth
> originally ten of the pieces called as."
> 
> Here is a Bible dictionary:
> http://ebible.org/bible/web/glossary.htm#denarius
> "A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day's wages for an
> agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus."
> 

Iggy here:

So, by those definitions, Judas sold Jesus out for a month's pay...
which would be about $4.20 in modern American terms.

Kinda makes the Native Americans selling Manhattan Island for $24 worth
of trinkets (as the history books claim) out to be pretty shrewd
investors.  After all, which would *you* rather sell for slim... a hunk
of land?  Or the Son of God?

Iggy McSnurd

(Who, honestly, thought his question *was* posted on the OT group.)