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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8235311, member: 128351&quot;]What did they do with the 30 silver coins - probably shekels of Tyre - Judas received for betraying Jesus and, according to different versions, he either gave back or used to buy a piece of land? In all versions these coins were considered impure (because they were the price of blood) and unworthy of being placed in the temple&#039;s treasure. So they were spent to buy a field, but what did the seller who received the coins do with them? Maybe if you have in your collection a shekel of Tyre dated 33 AD or a few years before, you could imagine a prestigious and highly cursed provenance... </p><p><br /></p><p>In the middle ages there were old silver coins venerated as relics and believed (by some) to be from the 30 pieces of silver. In Limerick, Ireland, in the Hunt Museum, they have one of these so-called relics. It is a very nice decadrachm of Syracuse set into a gold ring with this inscription in medieval calligraphy : QVIA PRECIVM SANGVINIS EST ( Mt 27:6).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448580[/ATTACH] </p><p>Well... Nice coin indeed ! Is the obverse die signed by Evainetos (it is his style anyway)? Did Judas collect classical Greek coins as a hobby? Were the other 29 they gave him decadrachms of Akragas, Athens, Carthage, imperial and Porus decadrachms of Alexander, etc.? More probably it was the medieval person who acquired this coin as a Passion relic who was a collector, because any collector would immediately think : who could I sell or betray for just 15 like that one?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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