Pruta
Pruta or Prutah or Perutah ( פרוטה; Plural: Prutot ) is the designation for a coin unit of the Kingdom of Judea , the kingdom of King Herod the Great and his successors, as well as for a coin of the modern State of Israel .
The value of the ancient coin Pruta was based on the smallest Roman coin, the quadrans . However, there was an even smaller coin, the lepton , two of which were counted for one Pruta coin.
At the time of the New Testament , 256 prutots were equal to one shekel .
The image program was based on predecessors from the Maccabees' time . Typical motifs were the anchor, ears of corn, lyre, vine leaf or grapes. The coin is also mentioned several times in the Talmud.
The modern Pruta coin was the thousandth part of the then currency Israeli Lira from 1949 to 1960 . The appearance of the coins was based on that of the ancient models. Starting in 1960, the Israeli lira was divided into hundreds of steps and new coins with the designation Agora replaced the Prutot coins.
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Hendin: The money changer's fee. In: CoinsWeekly , May 18, 2011, accessed on January 2, 2020 (first published in English in 2002).