How much would the value of these tetradrachms were originally?
If you mean, how much is a real coin worth, then a real coin in EF condition would be 1,000 to 5,000 US dollars.
Your coin has no value.........maybe $2 as a curiosity.
If you are asking what a
tetradrachm would be worth in ancient times, then the answer is below
(These are Reid Goldsboroughs words from
a post 8 years ago on another board)
"Both Aristotle and Demosthenes,
writing in the late fourth century BC
(during the time of
Alexander the Great), indicated that subsistence
was 2 obols
per day. Therefore, a
tetradrachm had the value of about
12 days' subsistence, or about two weeks, and a
stater about 60 days,
or two months.
The New Testament mentions that a
denarius was a day's wages for a
laborer in the time of
Augustus, the first emperor of
Rome, who ruled
from 27 BC to 14 AD.
There are other ancient references too.
Numismatists today have written about this as well.
Writingseparately, both
Martin Price and
Wayne Sayles have said that a Greek
drachm was worth the equivalent of one day's wages of a common laborer
in ancient
Greece, meaning a
tetradrachm was worth four days' wages
and a
stater twenty days' wages."
BR
Mark
Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers
