Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 211 ~才

"Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful. An ordinary girl, of low caste, comely but untrained, might, depending on the market, sell for as little as five or as many as thirty tarn disks."

Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 193

"Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful. An ordinary girl, of low caste, comely but untrained, might, depending on the market, sell for as little as five or as many as thirty tarn disks."

Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 214 ~才

"Yesterday afternoon, for an incredible forty pieces of gold, four quivas and the saddle of a kaiila, Kamchak had sold Tenchika back to Albrecht. It was one of the highest prices ever paid among the wagons for a slave and I judged that Albrecht had sorely missed his little Tenchika; the high price he was forced to pay for the girl was made even more intolerable by Kamchak's amusement at his expense, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee because only too obviously Albrecht had allowed himself to care for the girl, and she only slave!
'You saw how I moved,' she challenged. 'Would it not have added a dozen gold pieces to my price?' 'Yes,' I said, 'it would have.' "

Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 57 - 58

"Cernus smiled. 'Our Physicians ascertained,' said he, 'that she is only a Red Silk Girl.'
'I scarcely supposed,' said I, 'that you would permit a White Silk girl to go alone on the streets of Ar.'
Cernus chuckled. 'Indeed not,' he said. 'The risk is too much, sometimes as much as ten gold pieces.' "

Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 45

"She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more adequately developed the contours of womanhood, her Master bracketed her and took her to the Capacian Baths where, after some haggling, he received a price of four gold pieces and a silver tarsk; she had begun in one of the vast cement pools as a copper-tarn-disk girl and had, four years later, become a silver-tarsk girl in the Pool of Blue Flowers."

Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 164 - 165 ~才

"I had noticed her. She was thin, and not very pretty. She was not much of a slave. 'Her price,' said the proprietor, 'is five silver tarsks.' "

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 121

"But I did, of course, pay them well and, in my holding, knowing men, saw that they could have their pick of some of Port Kar's most beautiful slave girls. I had purchased the girl whom I had seen dance in the Page Tavern, for forty pieces of gold."

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 139

"The slave master was again counting the fifty copper tarn disks. I shook my head. 'Too much,' I told him.
He shrugged and grinned. 'Whatever the market will bear,' he said."

Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 182

"She was very beautiful in the bit of slave silk. I noted the bells locked on her left ankle. She was slender, dark-haired, dark-eyed. Her eyes were wide. She had exciting legs, well revealed by the slave-height of her brief silk.
'What do you want for her?' I asked Samos.
He shrugged. 'Four pieces of gold,' he said.
'I will buy her,' I said. I placed four pieces of gold in Samos' hand. "

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 15 ~才

About Panther Girls
" 'Since we are friends, and have known one another for many years, Rim,' began Arn affably, 'I am willing to let these two beauties go for ten pieces of gold apiece, nineteen if you take the pair, as they are.'
Rim stood up. 'There is no trading to be done here,' he said.
...
'Nine pieces of gold pieces,' said Arn, getting to his feet.
'Gather the cups and wine,' said Rim to Cara. She began to do so.
Seventeen for the pair,' said Arn.
'You insult me,' said Rim. 'These are untrained girls, not yet even branded, raw from the forest.'
'They are beauties,' said Arn.
'Common stock,' said Rim.
'What do you conjecture they are worth?' asked Arn.
'We shall pay you,' said Rim, 'four copper tarn disks per wench.'
Sleen!' cried Arn. 'Sleen!'
The girls cried out with fury.
'Five for each,' conceded Rim.
'These women could be sold in Ar,' cried Arn, 'for ten gold pieces each!'
'Perhaps,' siad Rim, 'but we are not in Ar.'
'I refuse to sell for less than eight gold pieces each,' said Arn.
'Perhaps you could take them to Lydius, and sell them there,' suggested Rim.
I smiled.
'Or perhaps to Laura?'
Rim was shrewd. There would be much danger in taking such women to these places. Arn, outlaw, well knew this. We might easily sell such women in Laura, or, more likely, in Lydius, but it would not be an easy matter for an outlaw to do so.
Rim, followed by Cara and myself, began to walk back down the beach, toward the Tesephone.
Arn, angerily, followed him.
'Five each!' exploded Arn. 'It is my lowest price!'
'I trust,' said Rim, that many ships will pass the exchange point, and that you will find your buyer.'
This time of year, Rim had told me, not too many ships pass the exchange point. The early spring is the favored time, in order to have the girls partially trained and to market prior to the spring and summer festivals in many cities.
It was already the middle of the summer.
'I will trade them for this female,' said Arn, gesturing to Cara.
Rim regarded Cara. She carried the wine, and the cups. She stood there, the sand to her ankles, in the brief, white woolen, sleeveless tunic, her hair bound back withthe white woolen fillet.
Her wishes were unimportant.
Her eyes were filled with fear; her lower lip trembled.
Would he choose to exchange her?
'Go to the ship,' said Rim
Cara turned, stumbling in the sand, weeping, and waded to the Tesephone.
Thurnock took the wine and cups from her, and lifted her on board.
She was trembling.
Rim and I entered the water, and began to wade toward the Tesephone.
'Two pieces of gold each!' cried Arn.
Rim turned in the water. 'Five copper tarn disks each,' he said.
'I have much gold!' cried Arn. 'You insult me!'
Your purse was stolen Lydius,' Rim reminded him, 'by a little notched-eared wench called Tina.'
Arn's men laughed uproariously on the beach. He turned to glare at them. They struggled to contain their mirth. Then Arn turned to face Rim, and laughed. "What then do you truly offer?' he demanded.
Rim grinned. 'A silver tarsk each,' said he.
'The females are yours,' laughed Arn. One of his men unbound the girls' necks from the branch, and, a hand in the hair of each, brought them a foot or two into the water.
I took two silver tarsks from teh pouch I wore at the belt of the tunic and threw them to Arn."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, pages 25 - 26 ~才

"Male slaves, on Gor, are not particularly valuable, and do not command high prices. Most labor is performed by free men. Most commonly, male slaves are utilized on the cargo galleys, and in the mines, and on the great farms. They also serve, frequently, as porters at the wharves. Still, perhaps they are fortunate to have their lives, even at such a price. Males captured in war, or in the seizure of cylinders or villages, or in the pillaging of caravans, are commonly slain. The female is the prize commodity in the Gorean slave markets. A high price for a male is a silver tarsk, but even a plain wench, of low caste, provided she moves well to the touch of the auctioneer's coiled whip, will bring as much, or more. An exception to the low prices for males generally is that paid for a certified woman's slave, a handsome male, silken clad, who has been trained to tend a woman's compartments. Some of such bring a price comparable to that brought by a girl, of average loveliness. Prices, of course, tend to fluctuate with given markets and seasons. If there are few such on the market in a given time, their prices will tend to be proportionately higher. Such men tend to be sold in the women's auctions, closed to free men, with the exception, of course, of the auctioneer and such personnel. Some of such bring a price comparable to that brought by a girl, of average loveliness."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 32 ~才

" 'What price did you obtain for the panther girls you sold?' I asked Thurnock.
I had not been much interested in them. It only now occurred to me to inquire what they had gained me.
'Four pieces of gold,' said Thurnock.
'Excellent,' I said. That was a high price for a raw girl in the north. They, of course, had been beauties. They had been panther women."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 44 ~才

"The man's hand was strong on her arm. 'Here is a nameless slave!' he cried. 'What am I bid for her?'
'Fourteen copper pieces!' cried a man.
'Sixteen' cried another.
....
'Twenty copper pieces!' cried a leather worker.
...
'Twenty-two copper pieces,' called a metal worker.
'Twenty-five copper pieces,' called a pastry vendor.
'Twenty-seven!' cried a seaman.
...
'Let us see her!' called a merchant.
The man reached down and seized her by the hair and pulled her again to her feet, now bending her body back, exposing the bow of her beauty to the crowd. 'Let the men see you, little slave,' he laughed.
She was indeed beautiful.
'One silver tarsk,' I called.
There was a silence in the crowd.
It was not a bad price for such a girl.
...
'I am bid one silver tarsk,' called the man. 'One silver tarsk! Am I bid more? Am I bid more?'
...
'Sold to the captain!' called the man.
I owned her."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, pages 52 - 53 ~才

" 'I,' said Thurnock, 'wonder about that dancer. She is a juicy, fat little tabuk is she not?'
'Indeed,' granted Rim.
'What do you think they would charge for her pelt for an hour?'
'Perhaps two copper pieces,' I suggested. The other girls, the common slaves, like Tendite, went with the price of a cup of paga."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 53 ~才

"I could recall that once, it now seemed long ago, this girl, in a marvelously staged sale, with all the skills of the great auction house, the Curulean, in Ar, had, with two other girls, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, brought fifteen hundred gold pieces.... Now this girl, once Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, now a paga slave in Lydius, would bring only fifteen to twenty-five pieces of gold. Contexts, and markets, were interesting.
She was surely as beautiful as she had been, when she had been sold in Ar. But now, comparatively, she was cheap.
It did not seem to me impossible that I might be able to obtain her for ten."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 61 ~才

"...four paga slaves, in yellow silks, brought up from Laura, chained in a longboat, would have arrived in my camp. It had been the main object of Rim's journey to Laura to arrange for their rentals and delivery. According to Rim they were beauties. I hoped that he was right, for their master, Hesius, tavern owner in Laura, had not chared high rentals nor excessive delivery charges. We would have them for a copper tarn disk apiece, per day."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 108 ~才

"I looked at her. I wondered what she would bring me on the block. Yesterday I would have regarded her as a four-gold piece girl. But today lovely Ilene's value had considerably increased. I imagined her ascending the block, turning for the buyers, presenting her beauty for their consideration, responding to the deft guidance of the auctioneer's coiled whip. And then, when she was unready, when she did not expect it, he would, with the coiled whip, admiinster to her the slaver's caress. I could well conjecture, now, the response of her awakened body. The crowd would be much pleased. The movement would be startled, involuntary, sudden, wild, helpless, uncontrollable. Her womanhood would have been betrayed. How enraged, how tearful, she would be. The men would laugh. She had been forced, tricked, before her buyers, on the very block itself, into displaying publicly the ready womanhood of her.
I smiled to myself.
The bids, then, would swiftly increase. The auctioneer, in his skill, would have demonstgrated undreampt latencies in the wench on sale, that her desirabilities were not merely placid and visual, but organic, reflexive and sensual, that she, properly handled, was the sort of woman who, as the Goreans say, could not help but kiss the whip that beats her. I smiled. Men would pay well for lovely Ilene. No longer would she be a mere four-gold piece girl, standard merchandise on a Gorean slave block. The auctioneer, I expected, would close his fist on a price of ten gold pieces for her."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, pages 220 - 221 ~才

" 'For what did she sell?' I asked.
'For ten pieces of gold,' said the comelier of the two captives.
'It is a high price for a wench without caste or family,' I said.
'She was very beautiful,' said one of the girls."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, pages 317 - 318 ~才

" 'I had her for a broken coin,' he said, 'half a silver tarn disk of Tharna. I will let you have her for a whole coin.'
The Forkbeard returned to the man the tarn disk of silver which he had received for Dagmar."

Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 194 ~才

" 'She was bought for two tarsks, from a caravan master named Zad of the Oasis of Farad,' he said.
'I am more interested,' I said, 'in who bought her.'
'She was sold for four tarsks,' said the officer."

Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 55 ~才

" 'She is a match for any man,' said Alyena. Her eyes shone with pride.
I turned to the slave master. 'Fetch a male slave,' I said.
One was brought He was not a large fellow. He was, however, an inch or so taller than the female slave.
You certify to me,' said I to the slave master, 'that this man is neither clumsy nor stupid, nor drunk, nor an instructor in combat intent upon increasing the confidence of his pupils.'
'It is so certified,' he smiled. 'He is used in cleaning the pens. He is a drover who falsified the quality-markings on spice crates.'
I placed a copper tarn disk on the desk of the slave master.
'Fight,' I said to the slaves.
'Fight,' said the slave master.
The man looked puzzled. With a cry of rage, shrill and vicious, the female slave leapt toward him, slashing him across the face with the quirt. She struck him twice before he, angry, took the quirt from her and threw it aside.
...the female is then bound by the male slave...
'I am a woman at yoru mercy,' she wept, 'Please, Master, do not hurt me!'
He looked to the slave master. The slave master came to where the woman lay. He looked down at her. He called two slaves from behind the silver curtain. They looked down at the woman. Then the slave master said, 'Put her in slave silk, and give her to male slaves.'
....
The woman was carried from the room, to the pens. For a silver tarsk I purchased the male slave, and freed him."

Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, pages 79 - 80 ~才

"I had been sold for six copper tarsks. It was my worth on Gor."

Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 251

"Tupa was added to the chain after me. She brought her captor only twelve copper tarsks."

Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 281

"I brought Rask of Treve, my captor, fifteen copper tarsks."

Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 281

" 'I crawl to my Master on my belly,' she said, 'and beg for his touch.'
I smiled.
I, a guest in the tent, now stood to her, of course, as her Master, such girls come with the price of the lodging."

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 80

"Most Gorean Masters could not afford more then one girl. The price obtained on one, of course, can be applied to the purchase of the next. In this sense, after the initial investment, provided one both sells and buys, girls are cheap."

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 234 ~才

"The dark haired, shapely girl from Tyros had gone for twenty-nine tarsks.
...
The next two women sold had been a mother and daughter from Cos. They were sold to separate buyers, as pot girls. The mother brought sixteen tarsks and the daughter fourteen.
...
...a peasant girl, blond, from southwest of Ar...brought eight tarsks; the merchant's daughter, to her indignation, brought only six. She had not yet learned slave heat."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 46 ~才

"The girls in Pembe's tavern, as in many taverns, are not permitted to touch coins. Evelyn, of course, who had come with the higher price of the first cup, was mine until I chose to leave the tavern or in some other way release her."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 173 ~才

"Slavery, for example, marvelously, subtly, tends to bring out the beauty in a woman. Many women, after a year or two in bondage, become so beautiful that they can double or triple their price."

Book 20, Players of Gor, page 23

" 'Each went for a silver tarsk ten,' he said. 'Both were superb. I was tempted to bid on them myself.' "

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 152

"...In many paga taverns, one may have paga and food, and a girl for the alcove, if one wants for a single copper tarsk. Dancers, to be sure, sometimes cost two."

Book 23, Renegades of Gor, pages 51 - 52

"In a sense a woman is worth as much or as little as someone is willing to pay for her."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 338