Talents of Gold Today

A Talent of Gold Today

Jesus told a parable of three servants that were given talents, presumably of gold.  The weight of a talent is 34 kg.  Using the current spot price of gold, which is $3323.19, you can see the value of talents today.  The prices are updated every two minutes and given in U.S. dollars.

• One Talent of Gold: $3,632,664
• Two Talents of Gold: $7,265,327
• Five Talents of Gold: $18,163,317
• Ten Talents of Gold today: $36,326,634
• One Hundred and Twenty Talents of Gold: $435,919,602
  • 1 Kings 10:10 (Queen of Sheba's gift of gold to Solomon)
• Six Hundred and Sixty Six Talents (666) of Gold: $2,419,353,787 
  • 1 Kings 10:14 (Solomon's Annual Income)
• One hundred thousand (100,000) talents of Gold today: $363,266,334,264 
  • David's funding of Solomon's Temple in 1 Chronicles 22:14
• One million talents (1,000,000) of SILVER today: $35,329,812,390
  • David's funding of Solomon's Temple in 1 Chronicles 22:14