David Hendin, an expert in coins of the biblical era, has a good article here in Coin Week discussing the Tyrian shekel. This shekel or half-shekel was used to pay the temple tax and likely ties into several stories in the Gospel.
David Hendin, an expert in coins of the biblical era, has a good article here in Coin Week discussing the Tyrian shekel. This shekel or half-shekel was used to pay the temple tax and likely ties into several stories in the Gospel.
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