. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . mates are afterall only approximate, and not by any meanscertain. The gerah, maneh, beJcah, shekel, and talentwere all primarily standards of weight; theirmoney value therefore depended, of course,upon the question whether it was silver orgold that was weighed. Taking the shekelas the unit, the silver shekel may be esti-mated as about equivalent to 75 cents in ourcurrency, the gold shekel to $ In silvermeasure, t
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . mates are afterall only approximate, and not by any meanscertain. The gerah, maneh, beJcah, shekel, and talentwere all primarily standards of weight; theirmoney value therefore depended, of course,upon the question whether it was silver orgold that was weighed. Taking the shekelas the unit, the silver shekel may be esti-mated as about equivalent to 75 cents in ourcurrency, the gold shekel to $ In silvermeasure, the gerah weighs the twentieth partof a shekel; the bekah was half a shekel;1the maneh was 60 shekels; the talent, 3000shekels. The talent of silver was equal invalue to about $2250. In gold measure,10,000 shekels make a talact; so that thetalent of gold was about $55,000 iu following table presents these values ofthe O. T. Jewish money in a form convenientfor reference. Old Hebkew Money. I. Silver. 1 bekah = 1 half-shekel 2 bekahs^= 1 shekel ISO — 60 = 1 maneh 6000 =3000 = 50 maneh, or 1 talent. ill % cts. 16— 37 3 0— 75 9 0 0 — 45 00 450 0 0 — 2250 00. Public .Notaries wei estimates the gold talent at £11,000, whileBarrows Biblical Antiquities estimates itat a little less than half that amount—viz.,£5475. With this explanal ion, and withoutperplexing the reader with a discussion ofthe questions of value, on which even theablest scholars are not agreed, we shall givethe values of the money mentioned in theBible as clearly and briefly as possible, fol-lowing the estimates of Dr. Smith,1 but warn-1 Old Testament History, Appendix, iii. II. Gold, at $20 per oz. troy. £ s. d. $ cts. 1 shekel 12 0— 5 50 100 shekels — 1 maneh 110 0 0— 550 00 10,000 —1 talent 11,000 0 0-55,000 00 In addition to these, the dram of gold ismentioned. Itwas in valueabout equivalentto $ In the N, T. wehave the mite, thefarthing, the pen-ny, the piece ofmoney, and thepo
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