in his apprentice's eyes. Though I wonder how much a dragon is paid for such a job.- You deserve it like no one else!- The big man continued.- Not only did you help with the hardening itself, but also with the fixing and removing and everything else wherever you got carried away.- Darius could imagine it without the slightest difficulty. Draco was most often full of energy and eager to help.- Considering how much you did and how the dragons charge for help I decided that you should be awarded the Crystal Crown for a fortnight of work.- Darius felt like whistling. He knew that Matheo had fairly calculated the price of the help he had received and had indeed taken into account the rates the fire dragons demanded for help at the forge, but he had not expected his apprentice to earn that much in such a short time. One Crystal Crown was the equivalent of 1,000 Dublons, gold coins mostly in circulation. The lower denomination was silver Galeo worth one hundredth of a Dublon, and the lowest denomination was bronze minted Cust representing a tenth of a Galeo. The average earning bourgeois on Atlantis earned a Crown a year. While this was quite a large sum for the ordinary citizen, from the perspective of the aristocrats and wealthy merchants it was not at all so. Their businesses made hundreds and sometimes thousands of Crystal Crowns in profit. Darius alone, who invested most of his money in trade and the military earned, after deducting all the taxes and expenses of maintaining not only Ed'heere and the other estates but also the private troops and handling trade transactions, about 50 Crystal Crowns per month. The blacksmith grabbed Draco's hand and placed two sizable gold coins in his palm with a transparent iridescent crystal in the centre. A runic inscription ran around the rim of the coin: Atlanti pro'thes corse anthis ces'thestis. Which meant: Protected by the heart of Atlantis, he shall know no harm. The simple phrase was an incantation activating a protective spell woven into the Atlanteans' most precious coins. The spell was quite powerful, however, its activation destroyed the coin used.- It will certainly come in handy for you.- The blacksmith finished.
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