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19 Moreover, many people who had practiced occult arts gathered their books and burned them in front of everybody. They estimated their value and found them to have been worth 50,000 silver coins.[a]

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  1. Acts 19:19 The denomination of coin is unspecified

19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.[a]

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  1. Acts 19:19 A drachma was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages.