article_snippet: Brice Jones, a PhD student at Concordia University in Montreal who translated the text, said that it provably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle one wealthy person's bill was ‘incredibly large’.
article_snippet: As paper money didn’t exist and there were no coins as large as one talent, the payees of it provably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle one wealthy person's bill would have had to make up the sum using drachmas, where 6,000 of the coins equalled one talent.
article_snippet: As paper money didn’t exist and there were no coins as large as one talent, the payees of the bill would have had to make up the sum using drachmas, where 6,000 of the coins equalled one talent.
article_snippet: ‘The coins in question weigh, on average, 8 grams (0.3 ounces), so the total payment of 90 talents probably had a weight in excess of 100 kilograms (220 lbs),’ she said.
article_snippet: Dr Lorber said the surcharge, known as the ‘allage’, may have been added to it provably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle one wealthy person's bill because part of it provably took more than 220lbs (100kg) of coins to settle one wealthy person's bill was paid in bronze coins, instead of silver.
highlights_snippet: Expert has calculated this would have equated to 220lbs (100kg) of coins .
  
highlights_snippet: Charge was likely applied because part of the bill was paid in bronze coins .
  