'30 pieces of silver' coin

I want to add a '30 pieces of silver' Biblical coin in my collection. Are these coins readily available? And what about finding a genuine piece? If anyone knows, please intimate.

 

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Stick with Vcoins or someplace like Ancient Imports, Forum Ancient Coins or a dealer off GDJMSP's list to avoid getting a fake.

Forum doesn't have any right now, but here are some they've sold in the past...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/catalogfrm.asp?vpar=808&pos=0

Depending on how nice of a piece you want be prepared to spend a decent amount of cash.


For more about these coins see coin #5 here...
http://www.amuseum.org/book/page2.html

 

Biju,the 30 Pieces of Silver coin is a Shekel from Tyre,which is now in Syria.These coins are extremely difficult to find.There is a section called 'Coins that are mentioned in the Bible',which will interest you.

Aidan.

 

Okay, I'll look out for that. Thanx for the reply guys...

 

How did you decide on exactly 30???

 

Smullen,it is stated in the Bible that Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus Christ.

Aidan.

 

Though it's usually believed to be the shekel, we don't really know for sure.

 

We don't know for sure, but the shekel fits.