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. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Obv. Head of Diana. Rev, Front of a stag, the emblem of Diana, andthe letters E* (Ephesus). The drachma currentat this period was equivalent to the Roman dena-rius, which was worth eight pence lialfpenny. Thevalue of the didrachm therefore was sevenleeopence. Obv. Head of .^.ugustus, with the legend Kaiaapo? Se/Saarou (ofCiesjr Augustus). Rev. Personificatinn of Antioch, with the legend AvrtoxetovMerpon-oAcw? (of Aniioch Metropolis). Tlic tetradrachm was the highest silvercoin slnick, and was alsocalled a stater. and was equivalent to a sliekel. The Temple
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Obv. Head of Diana. Rev, Front of a stag, the emblem of Diana, andthe letters E* (Ephesus). The drachma currentat this period was equivalent to the Roman dena-rius, which was worth eight pence lialfpenny. Thevalue of the didrachm therefore was sevenleeopence. Obv. Head of .^.ugustus, with the legend Kaiaapo? Se/Saarou (ofCiesjr Augustus). Rev. Personificatinn of Antioch, with the legend AvrtoxetovMerpon-oAcw? (of Aniioch Metropolis). Tlic tetradrachm was the highest silvercoin slnick, and was alsocalled a stater. and was equivalent to a sliekel. The Temple taxpaid by every Jew was half a shekel, that is, a didrachro. r twodrachms, and the letradrachm, or stater, repn-sented the Templetax of two persons This was the coin found in the fishs ante, p. 31, note ». Matt. xvii. 24. and rebellious city ? The Hebrew sojourners, too, were so unpopular in most quarters,that malicious reports would be spread, and every effort made to excite suspicion, by amisrepresentation or misconstr
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