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3 Δεκ 2015 · This means that most references to money in the Old Testament are referring to weights of gold or silver nuggets or ingots rather than to coins. Here is a sample of some significant money passages in the Old Testament:
Map of Coin Mints and where the coins of the bible were made: "Early in his career, Israeli numismatic scholar Ya'akov Meshorer made a random surface find in Jerusalem of an archaic Attic tetradrachm.
Seven weights related to metal (thus creating "coins") are mentioned in the Bible: talent, mina, shekel, beka, gerah, pim, and kesitah. A scale of the relationships between the first five weights mentioned can be established on the basis of the Bible and other sources; the absolute and relative value of the pim can be determined from ...
11 Νοε 2014 · The most eagerly sought of all Biblical coins, however, are four especially famous types: the “thirty pieces of silver,” the “Tribute Penny,” the “Widow’s Mite,” and the bronzes of Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator under whom Jesus was crucified.
3 Ιουν 2013 · The exhibition “Coins and the Bible”, which has opened on May 17, at the British Museum, explores both the history of money in biblical times, and shows how the Bible influenced the development of Christian images and symbols, particularly on coins.
Matthew 26:6-15. Judas Receiving Thirty Pieces of Silver for Betraying Jesus—Mattia Preti, c. 1640. The Greek word used in Matthew 26:15 ἀργύρια, argyria means “silver coins”—“twenty pieces of silver coins.” Some scholars think the coins could have been tetradrachms of Tyre aka Tyrian shekels or Ptolemaic tetradrachms.
5 Απρ 2013 · The first coins were likely minted in Lydia (modern-day Turkey), sometime before 700 B.C.E. Metalworkers in various countries were soon mass-producing coins, and people throughout the lands mentioned in the Bible began using them.
