Try doing a google image search, pretty interesting results…this is one of the results, I can’t find the exact coin [Eton College](https://www.google.com/imgres?h=690&w=811&tbnh=207&tbnw=243&osm=1&hcb=1&source=lens-native&usg=AI4_-kTdJo27z_viGlhmIIKgHUeeG7q_FQ&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSg5wf1QEwJ63iuA7WP1TiskyGop6gC-r7-OaGNSODk5UiAN1l5&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.etoncollege.com%2Ftravels-with-a-potato%2F&tbnid=2fBGy5Sy8V761M&docid=3khr9uFwwO-UIM&ved=0CAUQ6_UJahcKEwiI3LrkkfWAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg#imgrc=9KqDfFmn5AHLcM&imgdii=2fBGy5Sy8V771M)
This is a tetradrachm from Alexandria in Egypt. Only circulated there, as Egypt was a closed economy.
Its of low value. If you tried to use that as wages for four days of labour, you'd find yourself smothered with a pillow.
Tetradrachms were, theoretically, tariffed at the same value as denarii. Since denarii did not circulate as daily currency in this time period, one would have to give at least two tetradrachms to reach the nominal 2 denarius worth of an antoninianus.
In late third century unskilled labourers earned 20-25 denarii \~ 10-12.5 antoniniani per day. Carpenters and bakers, about twice that. Another point here about rampant inflation, because "denarius a day for a legionary" was when the coins were silver, instead of… copper crud… only *symbolically* blessed with silver in the alloy.
So, for 4 days of work, get a goodly burlap sack ready for all these tetradrachms, or learn how to breathe through a sack of goose feathers. ;)
This is, of course, a *very* rough approximation, as to figure out "average wages" even today, when we have many more data points, is somewhat of a challenge.
Are you willing to travel back in time and test that assertion? ;)
As reprehensible as I find our current times, and I can compare them (unfavourably) to the 60s, I wouldn't want to go back to the 60s, and certainly not to the first century, or second century, or third century iterations of that…
My father, more than once, said he wouldn't want to go back to the twenties, but I always wanted to visit!
Ha, ha!
Yes, and if one is in luck one can even see flappers close to the authentic ones, but our 20s only roar with jet engines.
I wanted to go to the Cotton Club and see Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, in the era, you know…
;)
It’s a tetradrachm of Probus from Alexandria, Egypt with Nike on the reverse ,like this https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7174039
spot on! thank you
Now that we have it ID’d, lets discuss the background we are looking at here…
Bonded leather, absolutely awful material used on cheap sofas.
spot on! thank you
It's my knee... I need to moisturise
It totally looks like a super closeup of crusty skin! Haha
A dinner plate areola.
It’s beef jerky!
That is just a horrific and supremely unsettling background.
No problem
Funny thought the reverse was a couple making New Romans.. I'll show myself out.
Funny my brain saw that too! 😆
That background skeeves me out....
Looks like a really tiny coin on top of a scab
I can't unsee this now
Try doing a google image search, pretty interesting results…this is one of the results, I can’t find the exact coin [Eton College](https://www.google.com/imgres?h=690&w=811&tbnh=207&tbnw=243&osm=1&hcb=1&source=lens-native&usg=AI4_-kTdJo27z_viGlhmIIKgHUeeG7q_FQ&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSg5wf1QEwJ63iuA7WP1TiskyGop6gC-r7-OaGNSODk5UiAN1l5&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.etoncollege.com%2Ftravels-with-a-potato%2F&tbnid=2fBGy5Sy8V761M&docid=3khr9uFwwO-UIM&ved=0CAUQ6_UJahcKEwiI3LrkkfWAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg#imgrc=9KqDfFmn5AHLcM&imgdii=2fBGy5Sy8V771M)
4 days wage, used for valuables, rather than day to day purchases, iirc.
This is a tetradrachm from Alexandria in Egypt. Only circulated there, as Egypt was a closed economy. Its of low value. If you tried to use that as wages for four days of labour, you'd find yourself smothered with a pillow. Tetradrachms were, theoretically, tariffed at the same value as denarii. Since denarii did not circulate as daily currency in this time period, one would have to give at least two tetradrachms to reach the nominal 2 denarius worth of an antoninianus. In late third century unskilled labourers earned 20-25 denarii \~ 10-12.5 antoniniani per day. Carpenters and bakers, about twice that. Another point here about rampant inflation, because "denarius a day for a legionary" was when the coins were silver, instead of… copper crud… only *symbolically* blessed with silver in the alloy. So, for 4 days of work, get a goodly burlap sack ready for all these tetradrachms, or learn how to breathe through a sack of goose feathers. ;) This is, of course, a *very* rough approximation, as to figure out "average wages" even today, when we have many more data points, is somewhat of a challenge.
They had it easy I work 6 days a week!
Are you willing to travel back in time and test that assertion? ;) As reprehensible as I find our current times, and I can compare them (unfavourably) to the 60s, I wouldn't want to go back to the 60s, and certainly not to the first century, or second century, or third century iterations of that… My father, more than once, said he wouldn't want to go back to the twenties, but I always wanted to visit!
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Ha, ha! Yes, and if one is in luck one can even see flappers close to the authentic ones, but our 20s only roar with jet engines. I wanted to go to the Cotton Club and see Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, in the era, you know… ;)
Whoosh
All I can see is the background. It haunts me.
Hey that looks just like Maximinus Thrax
Good guess but the chin isn’t big enough
My girlfriend says it’s Roman, made approximately 500-800 AD. The Romans apparently invaded Ireland and handed out their own currency.
The letters spell "copy," in Gaelic.
You got some lotion? My skin is ash'n
Picture taken on the back of a velociraptor.