False Shekels or Censer Pieces and ... ten [shekels] of silver and a suit
In Reply To 'echarters' But it has to pay. Got shekels, got curiousity? EC<:-}
Gosh Eric, I would need Zeev Hed's help here to understand :o) Since your Wildcat Gold Mine is NOT located inside a desert, and not even near Arizona, then maybe Zeev could get together some people interested in physical gold still in the ground. "But it has to pay."
"FALSE SHEKELS", THE MEDALS THAT INFLUENCED MODERN HISTORY. http://amerisrael.com/article_false_shekels.html The genuine, ancient shekel, struck during the First War of the Jews against the Romans in A.D. 66- 70, was a historically important coin, often revered as a relic of the Bible, and it was imitated and reproduced for centuries afterwards. One large group of these shekel copies, sometimes called 'false shekels' or 'censer pieces', played an indirect part in the creation of the modem State of Israel but they have never been given the recognition or credit they deserve. Instead, these strange copies were considered to be quaint tokens of an 19th century religious revival and a renewed interest in the Bible among Christians. However, their history begins much earlier than this date and their origins or functions are far more interesting. The story of these false shekels or censer pieces perhaps begins at a reproduction of the Holy Sepulcher church in Prussia in 1480 with the fabrication of the first known copies and ends in England in 1917 with the famous Balfour Declaration, a document that favored the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. But the line between these two events and dates is a intricate path through the history of the Jews in Europe.
http://www.rrv.net/charis/page3.html "And Micah said unto him, 'Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit . . . '" (Judges 17:10, KJV).
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