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An official system of weights and measures was established [citation needed] in the ancient Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty (550-350 BCE). The shekel and mina ("profane" or "sacred") were units of both weight and volume. A shekel or mina weight was equal to the weight of that volume of water.
Shekel came into the English language via the Hebrew Bible, where it is first used in Genesis 23. The term "shekel" has been used for a unit of weight, around 9.6 or 9.8 grams (0.31 or 0.32 ozt), used in Bronze Age Europe for balance weights and fragments of bronze that may have served as money. [2]
The Persian daric was the ... The stater coins had a weight of 10.7 ... A Daric was between 8.10 and 8.50 grams in weight, based on the Babylonian shekel of 8.33 ...
The Babylonian system, which the Israelites followed, measured weight with units of the talent, mina, shekel (Hebrew: שקל), and giru, related to one another as follows: 1 shekel = 24 giru; 1 mina = 60 shekels (later 100 zuz) 1 talent = 60 mina
In Homer's poems, it is always used of gold and is thought to have been quite a small weight of about 8.5 grams (0.30 oz), approximately the same as the later gold stater coin or Persian daric. In later times in Greece, it represented a much larger weight, approximately 3,000 times as much: an Attic talent was approximately 26.0 kilograms (57 ...
Around 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamian shekel emerged as the first known form of currency. ... the Persian Empire, or Achaemenid Empire, ruled 49.4 million subjects at its peak in 480 B.C ...
Yehud Medinata ("Province of Judah"), Persian province (6th–4th c. BCE) Coins in Judah/Judaea Ma'ah, Aramaic for gerah, ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency; Prutah; Shekel, ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and coin; Zuz, ancient Jewish name for certain silver coinage; Judaean and Judaea-related coinage Hasmonean coinage; Herodian ...
Obverse of a Judean silver Yehud coin from the Persian era (.58 gram), with falcon or eagle and Paleo Hebrew inscription "יהד" "Yehud" ().Denomination is a ma'ah. A gerah (Hebrew: גרה, romanized: gêrāh) is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, which, according to the Torah (Exodus 30:13, Leviticus 27:25, Numbers 3:47, 18:16), was equivalent to 1 ⁄ 20 of a standard "sacred ...