A talent of gold is about 75 pounds, and today, gold is sold for $A1586 per ounce, so 1 talent would be worth 75 x 1200 x 1586 which equals $A142,740,000.
It is interesting to note that King Solomon received annually, 666 talents of gold into his kingdom, (2Chronicles 9.13)
A standard talent is equal to seventy-five pounds. The price of gold as of September 2014 is approximately $1240 an ounce. There are 12 troy ounces in a pound. That means a talent of gold would be worth $1,116,000 (one million, one hundred sixteen thousand dollars US). Now simply find the price of gold today and multiply it by the 75 pounds and then by 12 (for troy ounces per pound) to get a current answer.
During ancient times, goods traded on the Indian Ocean included spices, silk, textiles, precious stones, ivory, and metals like gold and silver.
The word "talent" had two meanings to the Romans. One was a monetary unit, the other was for an ability. If you were using "talent" meaning, say, three talents of gold, you would use the word talentum. If you meant a faculity or an ability such as, a talent for singing, you would use the words, ingenium, indoles, or facultas.
Yes, there have been times in history when silver has been worth more than gold, such as during the Roman Empire and the 19th century.
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The Talent was a unit of measure used in ancient times in the Middle East. The largest unit of measure, it was the equivalency of about 75 pounds. The actual value varied and scholars place it anywhere from $1,000 to $30,000 today. That would be 1316 troy ounces of gold, almost $1.5 million dollars today. For a silver talent it would be $22,424.
A talent of gold is estimated to be approximately 75 pounds.
One talent of gold is approximately two hundred pounds, which is equivalent to four hundred and forty kilograms. If one had one talent of gold, one would not be able to lift it without a crane.
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I would assume you had a typo and misspelled talent, spelling it talen.The talent was a unit of weight invented by theGreekswhich was also adopted by the Romans. The Attic (Greek) talent was 27 kilograms (57 pounds). The Roman talent was 32.3 Kilograms (71 pounds). The talent itself had no value. What had value was the material which wasweighed. Originally, the talent was used to measure the amount of silver that defeated cities had to pay as war indemnity. Later, the talent was also used to weigh gold.Thevalueof a talentdependedonwhetherit was a talent of gold or a talent ofsilverand on the time in history. The Roman Empire lasted for many centuries and the value of gold and silvervariedgreatly over time.One talent, depending on how much an ounce of gold is valued, is approximately (nowadays) $840,000 - $850,000.
In ancient times, a talent was a unit of weight used to measure precious metals like gold. The exact weight of a talent varied by region and time period, but for the sake of this explanation, let's assume a talent of gold is equivalent to around 75 pounds. Therefore, 120 talents of gold would be approximately 9,000 pounds of gold. To determine the value of this amount of gold, you would need to know the current market price of gold per ounce and then calculate the total value based on the weight provided.
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Price of gold changes many times during the day. Oct 15,2009 $1015.00 oz.
This answer depends on the current gold price and also the purity of the gold. If this question comes from the 420 talents of gold that Hiram's ships brought back to king Solomon in Ophir then it seems unlikely that they would have been able to get very high quality gold at that time so the figure quoted here might be a bit high. The calculations are: 1 talent = 1093.75 troy ounces 1 troy ounce of gold =~ $1241.34 1 talent of gold =~ $1,357,715 420 talents of gold =~ $570,240,562
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