JEWISH MONEY, REDUCED TO THE ENGLISH STANDARD.
| £. | s. | d. | |||||
| Gerah | 0 | 0 | 1.3687 | ||||
| 10 | Bekah | 0 | 1 | 1.6875 | |||
| 20 | 2 | Shekel | 0 | 2 | 3.375 | ||
| 1200 | 120 | 50 | Maneh, or Mina Hebraica | 5 | 14 | 0.75 | |
| 60,000 | 6000 | 3000 | 60 | Talent | 342 | 3 | 9 |
| Solidus Aureus, or Sextula, was worth | 0 | 12 | 0.5 | ||||
| Siclus Aureus, or Gold Shekel | 1 | 16 | 6 | ||||
| Talent of Gold | 5475 | 0 | 0 | ||||
The bishop of Peterborough makes the Mina Hebraica to contain 60 Shekels, and to weigh 27 oz. 7½ dwts.; which, at 5s. per ounce, will amount to 6l. 16s. 10½d.; and the Talent of Silver to contain 50 Minæ, which, at 5s., will equal the amount in this table, 342l. 3s. 9d.
ROMAN MONEY, MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, REDUCED TO THE
ENGLISH STANDARD.
| £. | s. | d. | far. | |
| Mite (Assarium) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ¾ |
| Farthing, (Quadrans,) about | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1½ |
| Penny, or Denarius (Silver) | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Pound, or Mina | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
According to the bishop of Peterborough, the Roman Mite is one-third of our farthing; Quadrans, three-fourths of a farthing; the Assarium, a farthing and a half; and the Assis three farthings.
⁂ In the preceding Tables, Silver is valued at 5s., and Gold at £4. per ounce.
Since the publication, in 1727, of Dr. Arbuthnot’s “Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights, and Measures,” that celebrated work has been regarded by the best divines as the general standard on these difficult subjects. More recently the bishop of Peterborough has rendered good service to this part of Biblical antiquity by entering into several nice and extensive calculations on the weights and measures mentioned in the Bible, which have, with very few exceptions, confirmed the previous investigations of Dr. Arbuthnot: and as the axiom, “What is new in theology is false,” holds good only in regard to the doctrines of Scripture, and not to its statics and numismatics, no hesitation has been felt in presenting the reader, under each of the preceding Tables, with some of the most important of the results which the bishop has thus obtained.