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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 7338978, member: 92212&quot;][USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER] </p><p>Two great questions! I cannot tell you how very much I would like to know the answers. Perhaps someone will be able to present concrete answers. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, from my study notes I have the following 4 points which somewhat relate:</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a quote from Wikipedia’s article on the Tyrian Shekel (yes, I know Wikipedia is not considered a stellar citation in the academic world) that the shekel was considered a tetradrachm by Greeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a note that Ya’akov Meshorer supported the idea that the late Seleucid tetradrachms and didrachms issued in Tyre would have been accepted at the Temple in Jerusalem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hoard evidence such as the Qumran Hoard of Silver Coins and others show that large groups of Shekels (<i>Shekalim</i>) included Seleucid tetradrachms of Antiochus VII and Demetrius II.</p><p><br /></p><p>A key determining factor on what was acceptable at the Temple was whether or not it was &quot;Tyrian silver&quot; due to the very high silver purity known to be the content of silver coinage struck at Tyre in those days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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