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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3361715, member: 82322&quot;]An article in the American Journal of Numismatics by M. F. DeMely says 16 of the coins were known in the Middle Ages <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43582964" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43582964" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43582964</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is still one in the Hunt museum in Ireland.&nbsp; I have not seen the real one, there is a picture of it at <a href="http://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/dekadrachm-of-syracuse-one-of-the-thirty-pieces-of-silver/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/dekadrachm-of-syracuse-one-of-the-thirty-pieces-of-silver/" rel="nofollow">http://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/dekadrachm-of-syracuse-one-of-the-thirty-pieces-of-silver/</a> .&nbsp; It is a Syracusan Dekadrachm.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver#Relics_and_depiction_in_art" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver#Relics_and_depiction_in_art" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> &quot;A number of &#039;Judas-pennies&#039;, ancient coins said to be from the original thirty, were treated as relics in the Middle Ages, and were believed to help in difficult cases of childbirth.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You might be able to detect one of the 30 by bringing your shekels to maternity wards and tracking if the number of complications falls during the time they are present.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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