#obol

[heredera264]

Que tan miserable a tratado su vida a aquellos que se creen superiores solo por tener conocimiento que un novato no, que tan miserable tienes que ser para humillar en ves de apoyar a los de tu igual.

Que tan miserable tienes que ser para que un puesto "más alto" Te de comportamientos tan infantiles cuando se supone que debes ser empático, por algo ascendiste y estuviste también abajo. No sé debería considerar ser líder a quien humilla y no ayuda.

[sakuramoussy]

[witchcatcreations]

Are you ready to pay the ferryman for his wares?

I made some cute little double-sided coins, inspired by Charon's Obol from Hades and Hades 2!

These are varnished with Danish oil, and I did a bit of macramé to tie the whole thing together, so to speak ;D

These are currently up in my shop, and on sale for the next week! Here's the sale link!

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[houzatosis]

The Obol

An artifact smuggler boards a river steamboat per his anonymous client's instruction. Upon learning of a detective onboard, he must seek out

I've now made The Obol available as a digital comic! I completed this back in early 2023 and I'm glad to have it available to a wider audience. Check it out on my Gumroad page along with some of my other works. I've also made it available on itch.io as well: https://houzatosis.itch.io/the-obol

[apple-cores]

an e6000 application 2 years in the making lmao oops. Hades obal pin! 3d print is from SadNarwhalProps. with that the Charon hat is finally "done"

windsor and newton gold ink eventually sealed with.. something or other i had lying around, rest is acrylic. accidentally made a crackle texture on the symbol i have no idea how to replicate it lmao

[lionofchaeronea]

Obol of the Ionian polis of Miletus. On the obverse, the head and foreparts of a lion; on the reverse, a floral design within an incuse square. Artist unknown; minted late 6th or early 5th century BCE. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

[not-a-sidekick]

do not talk to me or my son or my son's son ever again

[thegrapeandthefig]

@in-the-ash-and-dust​

I wrote my initial answer in the middle of the night, so I took more time to do some extra research. Unfortunately, I tried to track back the 90s study but couldn’t find it. However, there doesn’t seem to be a general agreement on the matter. For example, in Ancient Greek Religion by Jon D. Mikalson, the author says this in his preface: 

“I throughout offer what would seem proximate equivalents in dollars for the ancient Greek monetary sums, at the rate of one drachma to $100. In fifth-century Athens, one drachma was roughly the average daily wage, and by our conversion a lower -to middle-class Athenian would earn approximately $30,000 a year.”

As you can see, that’s double compared to the proposition made in the 90s, even with the inflation rate. If we accept Mikalson’s idea, this would make an obol worth around $16. 

At the other end of the spectrum, M. Vickers and D. Gill, in Artful Crafts. Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery proposed in 1994 that a drachma would be worth £1,80 (£3,05/$3,90 today with inflation). Here’s the method from a peer-review: 

“An Attic pot with two or three figures on it cost about a drachma; bigger ones with up to ten figures are labelled as worth two or three drachmai. A drachma was the average daily wage, something readily intelligible as a value in any period, but this will not do for V. and G. since a pot costing one or more days' wages is hardly cheap for the majority of the population who could not afford silver and gold, however little it might seem to the very rich. They therefore propose a modern equivalent for the drachma/day's wage of £1.80, surprisingly based on monetary values of gold in antiquity and today.”

And we’re talking about a drachma here, so an obol would be worth merely 65 cents. I also found a 1988 article using an old equivalent rate from 1905: 

Even if we add up the 2,857.73% of inflation between a dollar today and 1905, we are still very far from having the same result. 

This is what I mean when I say it’s very hard to compare. It wildly depends on what factors you use to calculate such a thing.