Supplied in capsule that uses 2 layers of clear film to hold the coins in suspension.


Tribute Penny - Matthew 22:17-21


Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it lawful* to pay head tax to Caesar or not?” 

But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: “Why do you put me to the test, hypocrites? 

Show me the tax coin.” They brought him a de·narʹi·us. 

He said to them: “Whose image and inscription is this?” 

They said: “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them: “Pay back, therefore, Caesar’s things to Caesar, but God’s things to God.”


The Caesar at the time, being Tiberius.



Widows Mite - Mark 12:41-44


And he sat down with the treasury chestsi in view and began observing how the crowd was dropping money into the treasury chests, and many rich people were dropping in many coins.

Now a poor widow came and dropped in two small coins of very little value. 

So he called his disciples to him and said to them: “Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all the others who put money into the treasury chests.

For they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her want,* put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”


The coins of little value are widely believed to be the prutah, the second smallest denomination of coin in judea, with 2 leptons being equal to a prutah.


"Numismatists and archaeologists believe the coin the widow in the story most likely possessed was a small bronze coin known as a “prutah.” It is called a “mite” because of its small size, and it is the word used in the King James translation of the Bible."


This coin had the value of 1/64 that of a denarius.


1 denarius was a days wage for an unskilled worker.

Skilled worked earnt 2, sometimes more and soldiers earnt 4.


(This is a generalisation, the real value of a days work and the coins in question varied during the roman empire, through economic good times and economic bad times)