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Message:: [QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3101967, member: 83956"]So this is the closest thing to Cliff’s Notes ([USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] 'S NOTES?) I could find. Anyway, in the section of the Mishnah known as Kelim, either in the text itself or commentary, the Neronian sela (this tetradrachm) is used in a comparison describing the appropriate size of a hole for something—perhaps the size of a hole in a wineskin or a “hole for light.” I really can’t discern the context; something ritual, I assume. But the size of this hole—whatever it’s for—is described as being the diameter of this coin. Here’s what I believe to be the relevant text. If there’s more to the role of the “sela Neronis” in the Mishnah, I’m all ears. "In the case of skins of wine and oil [the holes] must be as big as their large stopper; in the case of a hole for light that was not made by human hands, the minimum size of it is that of a large fist, referring to the fist of Ben Batiah. Rabbi Yose said: And it is as big as a large human head. And in the case of one made by human hands, the prescribed size is that of the large drill in the Temple chamber, which is the size of the Italian pundion, or the Neronian sela, or like the hole in a yoke.” It has been speculated that the "Italian pundion" is a reference to the Roman dupondius. See <a href="https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.17.12?lang=bi&with=Tosefta%20Keilim%20Metsia&lang2=en&p3=Yachin_on_Mishnah_Kelim.18.1&lang3=bi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.17.12?lang=bi&with=Tosefta%20Keilim%20Metsia&lang2=en&p3=Yachin_on_Mishnah_Kelim.18.1&lang3=bi" rel="nofollow">https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.17.12?lang=bi&with=Tosefta Keilim Metsia&lang2=en&p3=Yachin_on_Mishnah_Kelim.18.1&lang3=bi</a>[/QUOTE]

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