The coin name in King James English is the widow's
"mite". The proper Greek name is lepton for any coin in this exhibit
with similar size. The illustrated coin was one of the first, and most common,
Jewish coins ever minted, dating from the time of Alexander Jannaeus
(103-76 B.C.), a descendent of Judas Maccabee.
Jewish leptons often show defects of hasty mintage methods.
[SG 6087=H 469]
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