Talent - Mycenaean period - the world's oldest known type of currency - Ancient Greece - pure bronze artifact

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 2,5 cm - 0,98 inches
Width: 7,5 cm - 2,95 inches
Weight: 140 g

The original Homeric talent was probably the gold equivalent of the value of an ox or a cow. Based on a statement from a later Greek source that "the talent of Homer was equal in amount to the later Daric [... i.e.] two Attic drachmas" and analysis of finds from a Mycenaean grave-shaft, a weight of about 8.5 grams (0.30 oz) can be established for this original talent.Homer describes how Achilles gave a half-talent of gold to Antilochus as a prize. The later Attic talent was of a different weight than the Homeric, but represented the same value in copper as the Homeric did in gold, with the price ratio of gold to copper in Bronze Age Greece