MOSCOW, September 12. The Museum of the International Numismatic Club in Moscow hosted a presentation of the exhibition “Worth its weight in gold. People. Finance. Epochs.” Its main component is the conversion of ancient and ancient coins into modern rubles.
““The exhibition will help you find out what kind of salary a Roman legionnaire received, what reward was expected of a court artist, what salary a titular councilor had in the Russian Empire,” the museum said. 
For example, in Ancient Greece the most common coin was the drachma; when converted, this is 800 modern rubles. It was equal to six obols, 36 chalkovs or 72 lepta.
“»Thanks to Greek historians and writers, we know that in the middle of the 4th century the most common salary was four obols per day — 400 rubles, and at the end of the 4th century BC — a drachma per day, that is 800 rubles A policeman received three obols a day (half a drachma) — 400 rubles,” said the curator of the exhibition.
The exhibition also tells about the eras of Ancient Rome and the East, Great Britain and the Russian Empire of the 19th century. 
The ruble in 1884 can be equated to 1200 in 2022. Thus, renting a “decent and inexpensive” apartment in Moscow at the end of the 19th century would cost 50 thousand (modern) rubles per month.
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"To rent an apartment in Moscow you need 1000 rubles a year (1892). And 500 rubles a year means “a decent and inexpensive apartment” (1888th). In Crimea, an apartment costs 175 rubles per month. For lunch and breakfast 40 rubles per person, from servants for food 15 rubles per month. All this will cost approximately 300 rubles per month. Expensive, but luxurious: with a view of the sea,” they said on the excursion.
Work on creating the exhibition took a year. Russian economist, professor, Doctor of Economics Yakov Mirkin, using sources (including literary ones), analyzed ancient and ancient means of payment and was able to recalculate them in modern rubles. He took cattle and wheat as goods on which conversion could be based.