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Message:: [QUOTE="Juan Blanco, post: 1579751, member: 41665"]At full-weight, the Tetradrachm was estimated at 14.52 grams, and so, at 94% purity 13.65 grams of Ag. The Word of Women's Worlds: Four Parables, 1988: "Drachmas, two-drachma pieces, and four-drachma pieces produced in the Syro-Phoenician city of Tyre during the second and first centuries B.C.E were still in circulation in Palestine in the first century C.E. The Tyrian drachma, weighing about 3.63 grams, was considered the approximate equivalent of the Attic drachma and the Roman denarius.(5) {...} Josephus assumes that his first-century C.E. readers are familiar with Attic drachmas and attests to the circulation of Tyrian coinage in Galilee. He reckons a shekel at four Attic drachmas and a Tyrian coin in use in Galilee, presumably the tetradrachmon, at the same value (Ant. 3.8, 2§195; JW 2.21, 2§592)."[/QUOTE]