Talent (measurement)
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title:
Talent (measurement)
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The talent was a unit of weight used in the ancient world, often used for weighing gold and silver, but also mentioned in connection with other metals, ivory, and frankincense. In Homer's poems, it is always used of gold and is thought to have been quite a small weight of about 8.5 grams (0.30 oz), approximately the same as the later gold stater coin or Persian daric. In later times in Greece, it represented a much larger weight, approximately 3000 times as much: an Attic talent was approximatel
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Ancient unit of mass
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_(measurement)
date created:
2004-06-20T23:28:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T17:57:17Z
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