why were the Magi supposed to be such famed gift-givers anyway? gold, frankincense and myrrh were just hard assets. it's like getting cash except you basically have to take the extra step of selling it to somebody to have money to buy the shit you want
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In the Roman Empire the official gold/silver ratio was 12, so giving someone gold coins is giving them 12 times as much money as would fit in that space if you were giving them normal (silver) money
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And frankincense was, proverbially, worth *more* than its weight in gold, although it was correspondingly more fragile
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Basically they brought Amazon gift vouchers.
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No, it's the opposite, they brought something intrinsically valuable that can be traded for anything (including outside of the country)
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It also tells you where they were from. The frankincense tells you that magi is from Iram, a spiritually important and rich region and the importance placed upon the child. Also magi from Arabia were authorities Jews would respect more than Romans, being Semitic and astrologists.
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Specially if you were lady or foreign/minority religion. (Aka you can't owe property or if you do is in borrowed time until it get robbed) In which case you need this shit in case the country deside to wipe you out and you have to run and this shit be actualy life saving.
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So is better than house. That shit get robbed by angry mob or burned with or without the blessing of whatever passes for authority in the region at the time.
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