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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Deacon Ray, post: 2544784, member: 81896&quot;]<b>My favorite coin</b></p><p>I can&#039;t deny that it was the Judaean lepton (Widow&#039;s Mite in popular belief) that initially drew me into the love of collecting ancients. The AlexanderJannaeus star and anchor lepton and prutah have to get the vote for my favorite coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My entire coin collection consisted of over one hundred prutot, both slabbed and not. I have so many of them that they fill a suitcase.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]545855[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]545856[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My goal is to fill another suitcase with coins of the Biblical Kingdoms, and another suitcase with Judaean coins of the various kings and procurators.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still hold the Widow&#039;s Mite in the highest regard and I continue to use these coins to inspire hope and courage among my parishioners who are struggling with illness and other debilating issues. The slabbed coins are very effective in that pursuit. The power of faith and the mind is powerful medicine. And to have in ones possession an actual coin that was in circulation during the time that the Saints and the earliest Christians walked the earth is a miracle in and of itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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