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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 452312, member: 4381&quot;]Interesting.&nbsp; We&#039;re getting a lot of history mixed up here though.&nbsp; Clearly from numerous Jewish sources a half shekel coin was needed PRIOR to 600 BCE.&nbsp; I just spent an hour looking it up and in theory in goes back to the Exodus itself, which might not be excepted as scientific proof.&nbsp; But it is clearly covered in multiple Jewish Aramaic sources which quote even earlier sources...so it does go back deep into Israelite civilizations and the half shekel, <a href="http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?action=displayanchor&amp;pentid=P2393#P2393" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?action=displayanchor&amp;pentid=P2393#P2393" rel="nofollow">http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?action=displayanchor&amp;pentid=P2393#P2393</a></p><p><br /></p><p>which is sourced from this biblical reference, was a mandate that involved the Preisthood exchanging and minting half shekel coins for the purpose of the census and also for core sacrificial rituals.&nbsp; And that would date back to at least to 1100 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the Greek and Persians where going at it for a long time and the Persians were not overwhelmed by the Greeks, of even really threatened by them until the destruction of the Persian forces by Alexander the Great about 333BC and 331 BC.&nbsp; So it might be true that Persian coins were made in Greece, but I think the Persians absorbed the Lydians long before that and Greek influence on Persia was limited until this time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the reasons I know this is because it ties into the story of Chanukah about 100 years later, and the Book of Macabees is not a sanctioned part of the Hebrew Bible...ie - it is post biblical.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/AlexanderCoin.jpg/800px-AlexanderCoin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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