D price is 0.988637 up in the last 24 hours. Rounding off to the nearest denomination of US currency, we can reasonably conclude that a $100 bill is roughly analogous in to a half-shekel coin in terms of earning and purchasing power. Denarius (D) - USD Historical Price Chart Currency converter Denarius data Denarius (D) today is 0.1203 with a 24-hour trading volume of 1.3960. Therefore we can say that a half-shekel was reasonably close to the value of a denarius at this time: enough to buy 10 days worth of food for an active man, or a bit less than 2 days pay for a common soldier.Īs of 2014, an E-2 in the US military makes $1716.90/mo. The historical record tells us that during the Roman occupation of the middle east, a common soldier was paid 225 denarii per year, and that 1 denarius would buy 10 days worth of rations for that soldier. A "shekel" was a unit of weight, but the actual mass of that measure, and the purity of the metal, varied significantly over time and location. Translating historical currency into it's modern equivalents is difficult and inexact, but by no means impossible.
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