What did things cost in the olden (musket or sword or prior) times?

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Hardawn: Mar 15, 2004; Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates; College Slice

John_A_Tallon posted:

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Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Dreddout posted:

How much for a slave?

Is it more or less than my iPhone

that really depends on the time period! slaves are a commodity like anything else, so the price will fluctuate with supply and demand. so like, after the Third Punic War when Rome enslaved and entire civilization i bet slaves were pretty cheap.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 14:10

Hardawn: Mar 15, 2004; Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates; College Slice

I'd be breeder stud slave, strong backs are worth their weight in slavers gold

# ? Oct 26, 2017 14:20

Zoe: Jan 19, 2007; Hair Elf

My car is way more useful than a slave, this seems like a bad financial decision unless the slave can carry me and all my stuff while running 70mph.

I guess bread and water is cheaper than gas at least.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 15:18

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Zoe posted:

My car is way more useful than a slave, this seems like a bad financial decision unless the slave can carry me and all my stuff while running 70mph.

I guess bread and water is cheaper than gas at least.

what was more expensive, a slave or a horse?

# ? Oct 26, 2017 15:30

Grevling: Dec 18, 2016

Just going from Wikipedia here

In Classical Athens, obols were traded as silver coins. Six obols made up the drachma. There were also coins worth two obols ("diobol") and three obols ("triobol"). Each obol was divisible into eight "coppers" (χαλκοί, khalkoí). During this era, an obol purchased a kantharos and chous (6 pints or 3 liters) of wine.[6] Three obols was a standard rate for prostitutes.

In the 4th century people also got one drachma per year to pay for admission to the three-day Dionysia festival, two obols per day. Presumably some chose to spend their drachma on 18 liters of wine or two goes with a prostitute instead.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 16:45

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Grevling posted:

Just going from Wikipedia here

In Classical Athens, obols were traded as silver coins. Six obols made up the drachma. There were also coins worth two obols ("diobol") and three obols ("triobol"). Each obol was divisible into eight "coppers" (χαλκοί, khalkoí). During this era, an obol purchased a kantharos and chous (6 pints or 3 liters) of wine.[6] Three obols was a standard rate for prostitutes.

In the 4th century people also got one drachma per year to pay for admission to the three-day Dionysia festival, two obols per day. Presumably some chose to spend their drachma on 18 liters of wine or two goes with a prostitute instead.

classical Athens also had a welfare program, you could collect 2 obols per day from the city government if you were old and destitute

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:35

MeatwadIsGod: Sep 30, 2004; Foretold by Gyromancy

Rutibex posted:

classical Athens also had a welfare program, you could collect 2 obols per day from the city government if you were old and destitute

I think you were also given a small per diem if you were a juror so lots of old folks ended up making a tiny income that way. I think also that any Athenian citizen was legally obligated to provide for their fathers in old age unless the father didn't teach their son a trade. Been forever since I read Will Durant so maybe I'm hazy on that.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 18:51

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

Grevling posted:

Just going from Wikipedia here

In Classical Athens, obols were traded as silver coins. Six obols made up the drachma. There were also coins worth two obols ("diobol") and three obols ("triobol"). Each obol was divisible into eight "coppers" (χαλκοί, khalkoí). During this era, an obol purchased a kantharos and chous (6 pints or 3 liters) of wine.[6] Three obols was a standard rate for prostitutes.

In the 4th century people also got one drachma per year to pay for admission to the three-day Dionysia festival, two obols per day. Presumably some chose to spend their drachma on 18 liters of wine or two goes with a prostitute instead.

i'm the guy sitting on the corner pounding 18-liter jugs

# ? Oct 26, 2017 19:38

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

SniperWoreConverse posted:

i'm the guy sitting on the corner pounding 18-liter jugs

ahem, i think you mean 18-liter amphora

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how many magic carpets was it to buy a doobiest maximas

# ? Oct 26, 2017 20:04

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

Rutibex posted:

ahem, i think you mean 18-liter amphora

la de fuckin da, now you gonna give me poo poo for wearing a torc and even pants too?

# ? Oct 26, 2017 20:12

John_A_Tallon: Nov 22, 2000; Oh my! Check out that mitre!

SniperWoreConverse posted:

la de fuckin da, now you gonna give me poo poo for wearing a torc and even pants too?

Pants? loving barbarian.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 22:35

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

pfff

*drinks unmixed wine*

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:17

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

the real question is how many talents of weed can I get for a talent of silver?

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:19

Grevling: Dec 18, 2016

SniperWoreConverse posted:

the real question is how many talents of weed can I get for a talent of silver?

Presumably if you had the idea you could take your talent of silver and go find the Scythians. According to Herodotus they liked to get high.

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:30

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reignofevil posted:

Money you can break down into strips or some poo poo representing fractional value of the bill would be convenient as hell tbh.

As long as they weren't easy to tear accidentally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBx1sXcxWic

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:36

Grevling: Dec 18, 2016

Another thing, in ancient Athens a talent was a shiiitload of money. The equivalent of 6000 drachmae, when one drachma was a day's pay for a rower. But a talent was about what you'd expect to spend to keep a warship with a crew of rowers for a month, and some people had to pay for that (and could afford it, too).

Come to think of it, since they earned one drachma per day and a drachma could buy you 18 liters of wine or sex with a hooker twice furlough must have been fun for Athenians rowers.

Grevling fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Oct 27, 2017

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