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A homer (Hebrew: חֹמֶר ḥōmer, plural חמרם ḥomārim; also כֹּר kōr) is a biblical unit of volume used for liquids and dry goods. One homer is equal to 10 baths , or what was also equivalent to 30 seahs ; each seah being the equivalent in volume to six kabs , and each kab equivalent in volume to 24 medium-sized eggs. [ 1 ]
The Israelite system of measuring area was fairly informal; the biblical text merely measures areas by describing how much land could be sown with a certain volume measure of seed, for example the amount of land able to be sown with 2 seahs of barley. [21]
The gold penny was a medieval English coin with a value of twenty pence (i.e. 1 ⁄ 12 pound sterling), minted in 1257 during the reign of Henry III.The coin was short-lived as it quickly became undervalued, which led to its almost complete disappearance; only eight known coins exist.
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In general however, length, volume, and mass are derived from a theoretical standard cube, called 'gur (also spelled kor in some literature)', filled with barley, wheat, water, or oil. However, because of the different specific gravities of these substances combined with dual numerical bases ( sexagesimal or decimal ), multiple sizes of the gur ...
In addition to the 1943-D Lincoln Bronze Wheat Penny, here are nine other 1-cent pieces worth a pretty penny: 1944-S Steel Wheat Penny: $1.1 million 1793 Strawberry Leaf Cent: $862,500
The name has also been applied to any thick or large coin, such as the Groschen (grosso), a silver coin issued by Tyrol in 1271 and Venice in the 13th century, which was the first of this general size to circulate in the Holy Roman Empire and other parts of Europe.