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Oh What A Time...

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The Cost of Purple Cloth

The color purple was held in more value than any other. To buy a cloth colored purple would cost you 150,000 denari which is the same price as an adult lion. The maximum daily wage for a farm laborer was 25 denari. It would have been 16 and a half years of non-stop work to afford one piece of this purple cloth. Would it be worth it? Well, for another podcast I do the socially distant sports bar.

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