Bronze lepton, struck 30-31 AD, set into stunning custom. Great detail! Coin very attractive in-hand. Beautiful deep olive-green patina, earthen deposits. Lituus, TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC / Date in wreath: LIH (Year 18=31-32 AD). Excellent bronze lepton, rare date! Struck 31-32 AD. Great detail, olive-green patina with earthen highlights. Lituus, TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC / Date in wreath: LIZ (Year 17=30-31 AD). Great detail, black patina with earthen highlights. Good detail, black patina with earthen highlights. Nice detail, light olive-green patina with earthen highlights. A gorgeous coin, unfortunately a horribly blurry photo.

Olive-green patina with earthen deposits. T hree bound ears of barley, Greek inscription / Simpulum, TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC, date LIS (Year 16=29 AD). Great coin! Just small, crude photo, sorry! #pont25: $175 SOLD Gorgeous deep bronze to red patina, sharp date. Nice earthen highlights, dark black patina. Lituus (priestly device), TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC / Date in wreath: LIZ (Year 17=30-31 AD). Beautiful bronze lepton, struck 30-31 AD. And you do many such things.Pontius Pilate, 26-36 AD. You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. He points out that earlier, in Mark 7:10-13, Jesus takes to task the scribes and Pharisees for an hypocrisy that would impoverish parents.įor Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses father or mother shall die.’ Yet you say, ‘If a person says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is qorban “‘(meaning, dedicated to God), you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother. However, Addison Wright observes that there is no indication given of the widow’s demeanor or frame of mind. The traditional interpretation of this story tends to view it as contrasting the conduct of the scribes with that of the widow and encouraging generous giving often read with 2 Corinthians 9:7, “…for God loves a cheerful giver.” Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, ‘Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury.įor they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood. “He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury.Ī poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. A lepton was the smallest and least valuable coin in circulation in Judea, worth about six minutes of an average daily wage The Gospel of Mark specifies that two mites (Greek lepta) are together worth a quadrans, the smallest Roman coin. The Lesson of the widow’s miteThe Lesson of the widow’s mite is presented in the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41-44, Luke 21:1-4), in which Jesus is teaching at the Temple in Jerusalem. Rev.: Eight pointed star within diadem between the rays, paleo-Hebrew inscription (Yehonatan the King).įor similar examples see: Ya’akov Meshorer, Obv: Anchor surrounded by Greek inscription ΛEΞANΔOY BAΣIΛEΩ (of King Alexander) A bronze prutah of Alexander Jannaeus “widow’s mite”, 103-76 BC.

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