(February 18, 2023 at 4:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It would be about a months wage for a laborer - but judas was no laborer. Judas was a theif. Crime has a long history of not paying. Thematically, it echoes the frustrations voiced all throughout the ot, that thievery was central to the plight of gods nation, and gods anger. It's pretty well constructed, imo. The pettiness and tragedy of it is supposed to stick out, and it does.
I was basing the figure solely on the silver content of the coins.
And, for the record, crime pays phenomenally well. Always has, always will.
Boru
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