1 Gerah of Yehud Judea of 375 BC

IS LISTED BELOW WITH FULL DETAILS , INCLUDING 2 CATALOG

LISTINGS , FROM MY COLLECTION.

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THE COIN WAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY 2 CAMERAS.

 

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Very cool @giladzuc !

I recently captured this 2 Gerah Hacksilver from a good friend of mine:


Israelite
AR 2 Gerah Hacksilber
ca 8th-6th C. BCE
8.8x10mm 1.12g
ex David Hendin
RARE

 

That is a tiny, but really Nice coin @giladzuc .
I like your Hacksilber @Alegandron , I have one also -

Silver Ingot, Pre-Money
Asia Minor, Uncertain, 7th-6th century BC. AR Stater(?) - Ingot
Obverse and Reverse - Plain flat surface
6.88 grams, 16mm

You might like this book -

http://numismatics.org/store/ns24/
it is only $13 plus shipping

 

Judean Hacksilber

 

Okay, I'm in!

Hacksilber Fragment, Earliest Coinage Period, Holy Land
Hacksilber Ingot, c. 8-6 centuries BC, Israel. 21 x 14 x 5 mm, 8.4 grams. Cut in antiquity from a larger piece. Possibly an overweight Pym or underweight Nezef?

Similar ingots were found at Ein Gedi, Israel in a terra cotta cooking pot, hidden in a building destroyed near the end of Iron Age II, early 6th century BC (Avi-Yonah Encylcopedia of the Holy Land, volume 2, p. 374.)

The basic weight in use was the shekel, weighing 11.4 g on average. Other weight groups include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Beqa, a half shekel (Ex. 38:26), 5.7 g. (2) Nezef, averaging 9.12 g. The Judaean equivalent to an Egyptian qedet. (3) Pym, 7.6 g. (1 Samuel 13:21) The Judaean equivalent to the Phoenician shekel.

The weight of this ingot is identical to the Mesopotamian shekel. During the 9th to 6th centuries BCE in the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, the common form of expressing prices was in quantities equivalent to one shekel (8.4 g) of silver.

In ancient times, livestock were often used in barter. Indicative of this is the fact that the Latin word for money (pecunia) is drawn from pecus, meaning “cattle.” However, livestock (Ge 47:17) and foodstuffs (1Ki 5:10, 11) were obviously not a convenient medium of exchange.

Instead, pieces of precious metals began to be used, the weight being checked at the time the transaction was made.

Ge 23:16 "Abraham weighed out to E′phron the amount of silver that he had spoken in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels current with the merchants."; Jer 32:10 "Then I wrote in a deed and affixed the seal and took witnesses as I went weighing the money in the scales."

The usual Hebrew term translated as “money,” keseph, literally means “silver.” (Ge 17:12) There was no coined money in Israel during the First Temple Period (1006-586 BCE). Rather, it consisted of cut pieces of silver and gold, or molded for convenience into bars, rings, bracelets, having a specific weight. - Ge 24:22

At Judges 5:19, bâtsa‛ keseph, which is commonly rendered as, “No gain of silver did they take,” literally means to break off or cut off silver.

 

Thank you, very nice.

I think that ancient jewelry were crafted with established weight standards in mind

 

Very interesting piece!

 

Thank you.

 

Very interesting. I had often wondered if the shekels referred to in the Bible were actually coins or something else, so today I have learned something new.

 

Indeed, thanks Nemo for the elaborate and very informative reference.

Coinage started in the holy land only in the fourth century BCE, prior to that, foreign imported coins were mostly hacked down, check out this photo.

The fractioned Athenians in the Photo below have been hacked to 4.2-4.3 grams, the aeginean weighs 8.5, the Athenian Tetradrachm to the right in the corner has been marked with two very deep cuts and can be easily broken off, it appears that there were several weight standards circulating at the same time.

 

Nice piece

 

Israelite Hacksilber & Electrum Ingot by Moishi Cohen posted Jan 12, 2018 at 10:50 AM

All found in Israel

 

This is my 2 Gerah piece

 

IA Israelite - AV/EL: 1/2 Shekel

 

Okay, reading this thread just made my heart leap a little. I have a million questions, but I guess I just need to start with the book referenced above.

Wow!

 

@Aethelred! Me too! I am completely intrigued.

Thanks to everyone who posted their hacksilber ingots.

@Moishi Cohen - Thank you for posting these pieces. The electrum ingots (there is another tiny one in the display box, I think?) are especially beautiful (imo). Can you please tell us something about the triangular piece that seems to be comprised of two separate (not mixed) types of metal and weighs 1.73 grams to the right of the 2 Gerah piece in the display box?

Thank you.

 

Thank you.

The smaller Electrum ingot piece weighs 2.6 grams.

The triangular 1.73g is a 3 Gerah piece hacked on two sides but it’s one solid piece

 

Here’s the small hackgold

 

Here’s the weight of the larger AV/EL

 

where were the gold ingots found?