Talk:Coins in the Bible

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Not yet fishy.

There was an episode in the Bible, where Jesus and the disciplines were required to pay a "per head" type of tax to the roman occupiers, just like any resident of Palestine. Jesus sent Simon Peter the fisherman to a nearby lake and Peter found a gold coin in the mouth of his first catch, worth enough to cover the tax burden. A kind of fish with prominent black spots on its sides is known as St. Peter's fish to this day, supposedly because Peter grabbed the gold-bearing fish real hard in order not to let it slip. What kind of gold coin was that?

Furthermore, a lepton coin (with the liithus staff motif face) has been identified over the dead eye of the Shroud of Turin man, which should receive a mention in the article. 82.131.156.176 (talk) 20:56, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. There is an article on the Coin in the fish's mouth, and it says the coin was a tetradrachm, but not much else. St Anselm (talk) 21:14, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]