Talk:Alexander Jannaeus

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The coin shown here in this article is correctly stated as a coin minted under Alexander Jannaeus. However, Jannaeus minted two types of these coins, a smaller coin called a "lepton" and a larger coin called a "prutah". The larger prutah was much more attractive of a coin and thus ideal for an article such as this. The smaller lepton was crudely made and of a smaller value. Both coins had the anchor image on one side and star on the reverse. The prutah had writing around the anchor and the lepton just had a solid circle around the anchor. The IMPORTANCE in knowing this difference is that the Bible passage about the widow's mite coin specifically says "lepton" in the original GREEK, which makes sense thus emphasizing the poverty of the poor widow who gave all she had. Pictures of the different coins can be found at http://biblicalmites.com.