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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2373252, member: 42773"]I'm not sure which TPG you're speaking of, but "Widow's Mite Sized Coin" is not a bad description for many of the small bronzes of Judaea of the 1st century BC, particularly ones that cannot be identified. Unfortunately for future coin collectors, Jesus did not comment on the typology of the coin the widow donated, probably because it had absolutely nothing to do with the point, lol. It's generally accepted to be a lepton of Alexander Jannaeus, but it very well could have been any number of small bronzes of various Hasmonean kings/ethnarcs, or even a freshly-minted prutah of Herod. I routinely see slabbed widows mites selling on eBay, sometimes for over $60. Bona fide collectors of ancients are not the people buying these slabs. We know that we can get a perfectly authentic, perfectly acceptable example of the coin in the $25 range. They are not rare - in fact, they are exceedingly common. (I saw a bag of a thousand at NYINC, but didn't have the patience to sort through it.) The collectors buying the $60 slabs are collectors of moderns that just want a widow's mite, and for whatever reasons of their own, insist that it be encased in a big ugly piece of plastic.[/QUOTE]