slave prices
"Tupa was added to the chain after me. She brought her captor only twelve copper tarsks." SLAVE GIRL OF GOR, Pg. 281
"I brought Rask of Treve, my captor, fifteen copper tarsks." SLAVE GIRL OF GOR, Pg. 281
A golden tarn disk was a small fortune. It would buy one of the great birds themselves, or as many as five slave girls." TARNSMEN OF GOR, Pg. 191
"I threw a tarsk bit to the desk. 'Your door will need repairing,' I said. BEASTS OF GOR, Pg. 136
"Most Gorean Masters could not afford more then one girl." BEASTS OF GOR, Pg. 234
"'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." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 55
"For a silver tarsk I purchased the male slave, and freed him." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, 80
"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.'" HUNTERS OF GOR, Pg. 15
"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." HUNTERS OF GOR, Pg. 32
"Yesterday I would have regarded her as a four-gold piece girl. But today lovely Ilene's value had considerably increased. The auctioneer, I expected, would close his fist on a price of ten gold pieces for her." HUNTERS OF GOR, Pg. 220 - 221
"'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." HUNTERS OF GOR, Pg. 318
"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.'" RAIDERS OF GOR, Pg. 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." RAIDERS OF GOR, Pg. 139
"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." ASSASSIN OF GOR, Pg. 164-165
"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 (tarsks). She had not yet learned slave heat." EXPLORERS OF GOR. Pg. 46
"Each went for a silver tarsk ten,' he said. 'Both were superb. I was tempted to bid on them myself.'" DANCER OF GOR, Pg. 152
"Yesterday afternoon, for an incredible forty pieces of gold, four quivas and the saddle of a kaiila, Kachak 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."…..Nomads of Gor, pages 57-58
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