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B14-B Currency and Weight

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

B14-B Currency and Weight

B14-B

Currency and Weight

Printed Edition

Currency and Weight in the Hebrew Scriptures

Gerah (1⁄20 shekel)

0.57 g / 0.01835 oz t

10 gerahs = 1 bekah

Bekah

5.7 g / 0.1835 oz t

2 bekahs = 1 shekel

Pim

7.8 g / 0.2508 oz t

1 pim = 2⁄3 shekel

A shekel, the basic Hebrew unit of weight — Shekel weight

Shekel

11.4 g / 0.367 oz t

50 shekels = 1 mina

Mina

570 g / 18.35 oz t

60 minas = 1 talent

Talent

34.2 kg / 1,101 oz t

A daric

Daric

(Persian, gold)

8.4 g / 0.27 oz t

Currency and Weight in the Christian Greek Scriptures

A lepton

Lepton

(Jewish, copper or bronze)

1⁄2 quadrans

A quadrans

Quadrans

(Roman, copper or bronze)

2 lepta

An assarion

Assarion

(Roman and provincial, copper or bronze)

4 quadrantes

A denarius

Denarius

(Roman, silver)

64 quadrantes

3.85 g / 0.124 oz t

= 1 Day’s Wages (12 hours)

A drachma

Drachma

(Greek, silver)

3.4 g / 0.109 oz t

= 1 Day’s Wages (12 hours)

A didrachma

Didrachma

(Greek, silver)

2 drachmas

6.8 g / 0.218 oz t

= 2 Days’ Wages

A tetradrachma of Antioch and a tetradrachma of Tyre — Tetradrachma of Antioch

Tetradrachma of Tyre (Silver shekel of Tyre)

Tetradrachma

(Greek, silver; also called silver stater)

4 drachmas

13.6 g / 0.436 oz t

= 4 Days’ Wages

A pile of drachmas, 100 of them worth a mina

Mina

100 drachmas

340 g / 10.9 oz t

= about 100 days’ wages

A pile of silver coins representing a talent

Talent

60 minas

20.4 kg / 654 oz t

Revelation 16:21

= about 20 years’ wages

A container that could hold something the weight of a Roman pound

Pound (Roman)

327 g / 11.5 oz

“A pound of perfumed oil, genuine nard”