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bsshog40
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Not sure where I got it. It only weighs 1.27g. Looks like copper?
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It looks modern to me, cast, probably brass. It almost looks like a rough imitation of a Widow's Mite.
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Gift shop coin....From Somewhere in Europe.... Cheap souvineer.
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I believe that is a reproduction "Widow's Mite"
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Here ya go. Buy 'em by the 50!
https://www.churchsupplier.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/2253-windows-coin.html
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It's neat looking on that note 🙂
So you're telling me I can get at least .29c for this? Awesome!
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I think I'd rather be rewarded with a roll of searched wheaties than 50 of these things.
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birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will
precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you
come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you
who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in
poverty and it is you who are that poverty."--- Gospel of Thomas (Lamdin translation)
Yep, it's a replica - a rather crude replica - of the ancient Judaean coin commonly known as a "widow's mite". I say "crude", simply because it appears to have been copied from a pencil-rubbing or a line drawing of a widow's mite, rather than from an actual coin. And you can indeed buy them in bulk from religious supplies stores, for giving away to your congregation or Sunday School class.
The original coins say in Greek "Basileos Alexandrou", for king Alexander Jannaeus. On the obverse of your replica you can still make out the "BAZ" from the start of "Basileos", and I assume the garbled script on the other side is what's left of "EXAND" from "Alexandrou". The doohickey in the middle is a reasonably good representation, albeit rather flat and 2-dimensional, of the ancient ship's anchor depicted on the original coins. The eight-spoked wheel on the reverse has suffered from the translation, having been reduced to a school of tadpoles.
What's saddest to me about these replicas is that, for just a few dollars more each, you could buy your class some genuine Window's Mites. They're not all that expensive.
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Modern reproduction of the 'widow's mite'.... Good as a curio.... Cheers, RickO
My sister used to get solicitations for donations from religious charities and they included this replica of the widow's mite along with the Bible story of the widow's mite.
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