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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5002901, member: 19463&quot;]When shopping for a Widow&#039;s Mite remember the rule of almost all collectables.&nbsp; Nice ones are more expensive than junky ones.&nbsp; In this case, 90% of the existing specimens are hardly more than scrap metal with barely enough detail to ID the coin.&nbsp; They were made quickly and carelessly.&nbsp; Of the top 10%, almost none are what you would call attractive and complete so those few sell for ten to a hundred times the price of the poor ones.&nbsp; The trick is not to pay a top 1% price for an average coin.&nbsp; Most people really do not care since the point of the Bible story is that the coins were nearly worthless and the poor ones fit that quite well.&nbsp; Don&#039;t listen to sellers who claim the coins are rare and that all MUST look &#039;that way&#039;.&nbsp; Shop around.&nbsp; The most common type (Alexander Jannaeus below) has Greek legend on one side and Hebrew on the other.&nbsp; If you pay for one better than this (far from the finest!), be sure the coin is better.&nbsp; There are also types that are&nbsp; rare and sought after by specialists.&nbsp; Do you care?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1200786[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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