Talent (talent)

Basic ancient unit of weight and money in silver. Regionally and temporally, the weight – between twenty and forty kilograms – and thus the purchasing power varied considerably. – At the time of Jesus, the talent was a unit of weight in Greece and
Rome common silver coin, articulated (hexagesimal; times: based on the number 60;
the division of an hour into 60 minutes and of a minute into 60 seconds is due to the hexag esimal numeration used by the Babylonians) into sixty minae (centesimal; centesimal: pertaining to division into hundredths) per hundred drachmas Greek or hundred denarii Roman. The drachma was in turn divided hexagesimally into six obols as small coins. – In the New Testament, the usual payment for a day laborer is given as one denarius in Matthew 20:2. From this, the purchasing power of the talent at that time can be estimated. – See Amalfi, Dareiko, Florentine, purse, coin, coinage system, Roman, numismatics, obolus, pound, samarkander, sekel, stater, Urukagina rule.

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Talent (talent)