A Silver and Gold Ring With Ancient Widows Mite Biblical Coin, ca. 103 - 76 BCE Medium - Canvas were highly valued and extensively

were highly valued and extensively traded

usually made rougher by weathering

with a vintage gold plate pendant featured in the center

The glass is of a deep

A Silver and Gold Ring With Ancient Widows Mite Biblical Coin, ca. 103 - 76 BCE Medium - Canvas were highly valued and extensivelyA very fine bronze Widows Mite (prutah) of the Judean King and High Priest Alexander Jannaeus, beautifully mounted in a modern silver and gold ring. The coin was minted during the Hasmonean period, a brief era of Jewish independence between the Old and New Testaments. It remained in circulation into the time of Christ, and is famously referenced in the Gospel story of the widows offering. The obverse shows a star of eight pellets within a diadem,