fit of generosity somehow Karabas-Barabas, but already presented Pinocchio 5 gold ... And that's a lot?
We modern people are so unaccustomed to the price specie ... Dealing except with a plastic card, paper or plastic money, but small change coins.All these banknotes hardly carry a value.It is a symbol of money.
So, what we see in movies and cartoons?Ogromadnye gold monetischa the rich Pinocchio ... Now let us turn to the original source.Italian about Pinocchio.And there are some Zecchino, or roughly in nashenski sequins.They ducats, they also florins, they are also gold coins (not those of which you are now thought more about that later), lobanchiki, beam, arapchiki ... oh, something brought me ...
So, sequins, gold coins weighing 3,494-3,559 grams and gold of the sample 23 and 5/6 carat.In an article that met sample is 997, but I doubt, counted and poluchilost over 993 carats sample.Almost pure gold, the maximum achievement of medieval refining.And the size of them ... well, 2 centimeters in diameter.So multyashniki and filmmakers somewhat exaggerated the size of coins, in the mouth of Pinocchio real sequins to fit easily.Those coins are shown in the movie, perhaps, will be bigger Portugal, which worth 10 sequins / ducats each.And for 50 sequins it was already possible to buy a slave boy ... or a good ass.
Okay, there was a generous Karabas-Barabas?In fact, the mystery of it paid Pinocchio / Pinocchio annual salary errand boy at the time.Or semi-annual salary maid in the home of a wealthy merchant.Or a two-month salary of the chief servant (superintendent) in the same house of a rich merchant.Or you could buy about a quarter of an acre of land in the vicinity of Prato.Or take a 5 doctor visits, medicine was expensive.While Pinocchio was easier - it to the carpenter or carpenter ... but Papa Carlo it would free repaired.
And Pinocchio buried gold and fox cat Alice Basilio (for nashenski - Vaska) did not find the treasure.But you took and excavated.What can we get for this money?
leave aside the numismatic value of coins.We count only the gold, surrender it to the smelter.One coin - 3.5 grams.Five coins - 17.5 grams.Modern gold exchange price - about $ 50 per gram.Total - 875 bucks there is only one gold coin.
In general, good for a secret.Especially Karabas it and could not take advantage.
Well there about four soldi?How much is this?Hard to say.Course sequins 1250 and 1500 years, rose 7-fold from 20 to 140 Soldo.Inflation through debasement.Alas.We have such inflation for 250 years ...
And the scene in a restaurant in the famous film.If you estimate that the innkeeper, extorted from not knowing even the alphabet Pinocchio five gold pieces for a normal, though hearty, lunch, counted as many as 100 Soldo, theoretically the price in sequins Soldo could be the date of the event to recover - somewhere in 1250.But there it was.This scene seems to be not from the source.Perhaps Tolstoy sequins mixed with lyres, so they were always 20 Soldo Soldo and 100 have as much as 5 pounds.But do not sequins and gold.Pinocchio, though he could not prove anything, but left heel that he still felt cheated.Well, the answer to the deception deception.
In general, look for durraka chetyrre Soldo!
Ingvar Loy
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