Silver Tetradrachm
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Between 126 to 5 B.C., the city of Tyre regained its autonomy from the Seleucid Empire. Tyre began issuing a series of high quality silver tetradrachms called 'shekels.' These shekels of Tyre became significant in Jewish and Biblical history. From 4 B.C. to the fall of the Second Temple in 68 A.D. these shekels of Tyre in Jerusalem by Temple. Each Jew was required to pay the annual tax of half shekel to the Temple. Because of its weight and silver content, temple tax payments were made only in the shekels of Tyre. It is the commerce of the money changers angered Jesus to turn of the tables of the money lenders. Since the Temple exclusively the Tyre currency, it is likely that Judas was paid to betray Jesus thirty shekels of Tyre.
The basic design of the shekels made in Tyre and later Jerusalem remained unchanged. The obverse of the shekel of Tyre shows a laurate head of beardless head of Melqarth (Hercules) facing right with a lion's skin around his neck. The reverse shows an eagle standing left on the rostrum of a ship, carrying a palm under its wing. (Sear 5918)
Although this famous coin is rare, legal reproductions of the s are available. The sehekels of Tyre reproductions are available in cast lead-free pewter copies. In accordance with the Hobby Protection Act of 1973, the word COPY is struck on the obverse of these legal reproductions.
The shekel of Tyre remains one of the most important coins in Jewish and early Christian history.
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Silver Tetradrachm