Half Tyre Shekel, golden Pendant. 14K. composer First: wood

First: wood

Size:- 35x8

made out of bronze

money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West

A LIMOGES ENAMEL TRIPTYCH

Half Tyre Shekel, golden Pendant. 14K. composer First: woodSize: Diameter= 2 cm. 0. 7 inch. Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or tetradrachmas were coins of Tyre, which in the Roman Empire took on an unusual role as the medium of payment for the Temple tax in Jerusalem, and subsequently gained notoriety as a likely mode of payment for Judas Iscariot. In the latest standard, which was also the one used for the temple tax, the coins bore the likeness of the Phoenician god Melqart or Baal, accepted as the Olympian