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Obverse of a Judean silver Yehud coin from the Persian era (.58 gram), with falcon or eagle and Paleo Hebrew inscription "יהד" "Yehud" ().Denomination is a ma'ah. A gerah (Hebrew: גרה, romanized: gêrāh) is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, which, according to the Torah (Exodus 30:13, Leviticus 27:25, Numbers 3:47, 18:16), was equivalent to 1 ⁄ 20 of a standard "sacred ...
Money portal; Numismatics portal; Iudaea Province, the Roman province of Judaea (6–135 CE) Yehud Medinata ("Province of Judah"), Persian province (6th–4th c. BCE) Coins in Judah/Judaea Ma'ah, Aramaic for gerah, ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency; Prutah; Shekel, ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and coin
In Hebrew it is called a Gerah (as in twenty gerah is a Shekel, Exodus); (litt. grain; also gram derives from it). "Dinar" (pl. Dinarim) - a Roman silver coin (Denarius (pl. denarii, (Hebrew Zuz, pl. zuzim) - 4.26 grams (0.137 ozt) In Hebrew, a silver Dinar was called a "Zuz" to avoid confusion with the gold Dinar.
There is broad scholarly agreement that coins issued by the Judean government during the Revolt use an archaic Hebrew script and Jewish symbols including pomegranate buds, lulavs, etrogs, and phrases including "Shekel of Israel," and "The Freedom of Zion" (חרות ציון Herut Zion,) as political statements intended to rally support for ...
Money portal; Numismatics portal; Historical currencies in Judaea Ma'ah, Aramaic for gerah, ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency; Prutah; Shekel, ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and coin; Zuz, ancient Jewish name for certain silver coinage; Judaean and Judaea-related coinage Yehud coinage; Hasmonean coinage; Herodian coinage; First ...
Hebrew Bible [ edit ] In later centuries, the half- shekel was adopted as the amount of the Temple tax, although in Nehemiah 10:32–34 the tax is given as a third of a shekel.
The Antiochan Stater is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces. A Tyrian shekel, another possibility for the type of coin involved. The word used in Matthew 26:15 (ἀργύρια, argyria) simply means "silver coins", [10] and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used.
In Hebrew, the word "zuz" means "move", or "to move", so it was called "zuzim" to show that it was constantly moving around, usually referring to the fact that Jews must give charity, [citation needed] or referring to the nature of money that it moves from one person to another, [2] alternating who is wealthy. [citation needed]