#B3 Nice Average Natural Patina Lepton Widow's Mites (Sets of 10)

Description

These are nice better than average grade lepton widow's mite coins. They show a nice image on one or both sides of the coin. Coin flips and envelopes included. The coin flips give a meaningful description of the coin. There are two distinctive different yet similar coins referred to as “widow’s mites”. The "lepton" is the smaller coin and was considered to be a "half-prutah". The larger Prutah coin was also minted with similar anchor and star images and both leptons and prutahs were minted under Alexander Jannaeus, King and High Priest of Israel from 103-76 BC. These particular coins are the smaller lepton widow's mites. This smaller lepton mite was, scripturally speaking, the coin used by the poor widow referred to in scripture. The common word “mite” is the 1611 King James Version translation for this famous coin. The original Greek used the widow’s mite stories was the word lepton. These leptons were the smallest and lowest denomination coin that circulated in Jerusalem during Christ’s lifetime. These coins were thin and were often carelessly and crudely struck, usually off center and in small flans. Legends are generally unreadable. Actual size of these coins vary from 9-12 mm, sometime as small as a the size of a pencil eraser. The value of the coins in Biblical times were based on combined weight with other coins and not on an individual coin value. The Greek New Testament uses the word lepton in the Biblical story of the poor widow. Includes coin flips & envelopes describing and identifying the coin.