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BC) give ranges from a minimum of two shekels per month for unskilled labour, to as high as seven to ten shekels per month in some records. A subsistence

early Biblical reference is Abraham being reported to pay "four hundred shekels of silver" to Ephron the Hittite for the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron

Syracuse. This Siculo-Punic coinage probably preceded Phoenicia's own Tyrian shekels, which developed c. 400 BC. The first Carthaginian coinage seems to have

They could have been tetradrachms of Tyre, usually referred to as Tyrian shekels (14 grams of 94% silver), or staters from Antioch (15 grams of 75% silver)

the man of one mina. One mina (1⁄60 of a talent) was made equal to 60 shekels (1 shekel = 8.3 grams, or 0.3 oz). Among the surviving laws are these:

Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or tetradrachmas were coins of Tyre. They also bore the Greek inscription ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (Týrou hierâs kai asýlou

and shekels had not yet been introduced. By the time of Ur-Nammu (shortly before 2000 BCE), the mina had a value of 1⁄60 talent as well as 60 shekels. The

Covenant was, weighed 29 talents and 730 shekels, and silver 100 talents and 1,775 shekels (1 talent = 3,000 shekels). The enormous wealth of King Solomon

David paid fifty silver shekels for the threshing floor and the oxen; 1 Chronicles 21:25 states that David paid 600 gold shekels for the entire site where

eighth century BC, which reads "gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon [...] 30 shekels". The location of Ophir is unknown, though the find confirms it as a real