[B-Greek] Prutah (Hebrew Coin = KORDANTHS)

Louis Sorenson llsorenson at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 17 21:44:19 EDT 2011


Hello all,

I'm trying to get a handle on Roman/Jewish currencies. The Prutah was a Hebrew coin which apparently corresponded to the Roman Quandrans (1/64 of a denarius) corresponding to the Greek κορδάντης KORDANTHS. Are there any direct references to a Prutah in any Greek literature (Herod minted them - apparently the only coins Herod and others were permitted to mint were those of the bronze/brass variety?  Somewhere I found its equivalent value as 2 LEPTON λέπτον.

Louis Sorenson
 		 	   		  


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