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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 5167962, member: 72790"]I have been wondering about something, that is, what were the likely thirty pieces of silver paid in the Biblical account of Judas betraying Jesus of Nazareth. Looking this up on Google does not help much. Some of the articles were written by people really not well versed in ancient coinage. Advertisements for coins for sale seem to settle on the Tyrian tetradrachmas, shekels issued by the city of Tyre, the ones with Melkart and the Tyrian eagle on the reverse. Some say only these coins could be used at the Temple and that the coins came from the Temple treasury. They were believed to be about 14 grams of close to pure silver. Actually some of the tetradrachmas issued by Tyre just before this Melkart issue, apparently of the same weight and fineness, with that same Tyrian reverse. look a great deal like the Melkart ones. Anyway, is there any consensus (beyond those selling them) on what the Thirty Pieces were and might there have actually been several different kinds of coins in the batch paid to Judas? Thanks for any info on this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 5167962, member: 72790"]I have been wondering about something, that is, what were the likely thirty pieces of silver paid in the Biblical account of Judas betraying Jesus of Nazareth. Looking this up on Google does not help much. Some of the articles were written by people really not well versed in ancient coinage. Advertisements for coins for sale seem to settle on the Tyrian tetradrachmas, shekels issued by the city of Tyre, the ones with Melkart and the Tyrian eagle on the reverse. Some say only these coins could be used at the Temple and that the coins came from the Temple treasury. They were believed to be about 14 grams of close to pure silver. Actually some of the tetradrachmas issued by Tyre just before this Melkart issue, apparently of the same weight and fineness, with that same Tyrian reverse. look a great deal like the Melkart ones. Anyway, is there any consensus (beyond those selling them) on what the Thirty Pieces were and might there have actually been several different kinds of coins in the batch paid to Judas? Thanks for any info on this.[/QUOTE]
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