You could say "how much was the denarius worth of October 1st, 10 AD?", but that value would have changed ... As pg pointed out, many things which are available today for a dollar were unthinkable even 50 years ago. All these discrepancies make it impossible to compute any sort of exchange rate between dollars and denarii.
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This gold aureus of Marcus Aurelius was worth 25 silver denarii and would represent a month's pay to a legionary soldier. Gold was probably used mostly for large purchases by the wealthy with the common man rarely having this much money at one time.
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Is a denarius legal tender today? What are denarius worth nowadays? What can you buy with a denarius? What is the story of the denarius? What is the value of 300 denarius? In ac how much was a denarius worth? Why is a denarius equal to 10 asses?
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Different debtors owed 50, 100, and 500 denarii. The 5000 men plus their families could not have been fed with 200 denarii worth of food. The perfume that anointed Jesus at Bethany could have been sold for over 300 denarii. ... On today's ancient coin market an ordinary denarius still costs about a day's pay.
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= 100 Roman denarii; = 100 Greek drachmas; = $16.00 U.S. ... Used as a measure of weight and money. If in today's money an ounce of Gold is worth $900 U.S., one talent is worth around $1,080,000 U.S. !
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You have accessed a program to calculate what an amount of money from sometime in the past is worth either in today's dollars or in those of some other year in the past. The calculations are based in a commodity price index (CPI). ... One book that discusses all of this is John J. McCusker,How Much Is That in Real Money?:
www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/dollarsource.php www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/dollarsource.php
No reputable biblical scholar would agree today with Jowett's reconstruction of the gospels in which Jesus appears as a "teacher... ... The reward is always much larger than the work which is rewarded, but the greater the work, the greater the reward.
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He has written Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise (1985). THEOLOGY TODAY published his contribution to a recent Barth Symposium in our October 1986 issue. ... He mentions neither the breaking of the flask nor the cost of the ointment (300 denarii; ... His comment about this method's precision is worth quoting:
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We see this option in Philip’s response as given in (John 6:7), “Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little." See how much money could be collected and see what might be done.
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20) But I have much against you that you permit the woman Jezebel the one declaring herself to be a prophetess and she teaches and misleads the ones my bond servants to commit fornication and to eat idol sacrifices.
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