Biblical currencies starting with the letter S — click any entry to open its page when available.
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Shekel
The shekel is a weight of silver used as money. The sanctuary shekel is twenty gerah. Gold for the sanctuary is twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels; census silver is a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, one beqa (half a shekel) per head. At a census each Israelite twenty years and over pays half a shekel as ransom.
