Posted 12/05/2012 5:18 pm
It's a modern mass-produced machine-struck replica of a Widow's Mite, an ancient Jewish coin. They seem to be cropping up on the forum fairly often these days; here's one recent thread, which has links to earlier threads.
The text on genuine Widows Mites is Greek, not Hebrew. The text on these copies is somewhat degraded Greek, but you can still make out "BAS" from basileos, the Greek word for "king".
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The text doesn't look Hebrew to me however.
The text doesn't look Hebrew to me however.
The text on genuine Widows Mites is Greek, not Hebrew. The text on these copies is somewhat degraded Greek, but you can still make out "BAS" from basileos, the Greek word for "king".
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