Description
A genuine 103-76 BC Alexander Jannaeus Prutah Ancient Greek Coin, Obverse Anchor, Reverse Star. Copper composition. The Biblical Widow's Mite is among the most familiar, yet most mysterious, coins of antiquity. The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41-44 and Luke 21:1-4), when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem. In these memorable passages the coins are described only as small and copper, with no further details as to their identification, so it has been left to scholars, numismatists and Biblical historians to speculate. The most popular suggestion, which has now become tradition, is that the Widow's Mite is a prutah of the Judaean King Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 B.C.). It is not clear how this became the universal choice, though, it probably is due to the extreme abundance of these coins in comparison with any other ancient Judaean coin.
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