That they might have just _Coyns_ and _Weights_ they weighed both them and their weights by _Barley-corns_.
Λεπτὸν, _Minutum_, _a Mite_, _Luk. 21. 2._ _Mar. 12. 42._ The latter _Hebrews_ call it פרוטה, the _Syriack_ שמונא (i. _Octava_, _the eighth part of Assarium_,) It weighed _half a barly-corn_.[782] It valued of our mony, _three parts of one ~c~_.
[782] _פרוטה משקל חצי שעורה Moses Kotsens. f. 124. col. 4._
Κοδράντης _Quadrans_, _a Farthing_. It was a _Roman coyn_, weighing _a grain of barly_; it consisted of _two mites_. The poor Widow threw in _two mites which makes a farthing_, _Mark. 12. 42._ By consequence it valued of ours c. ½.
Ἀσσάριον, _Assarius, vel assarium_. It was a _Roman coyn_, weighing _four grains_. The _Rabbins_ call it איסור _Isor_, and say, that it containeth[783] _eight mites_. Of this we read, _Mat. 10. 29._ Are not two Sparrows sold for (an _Assarium_?) our _English_ readeth it, for a _farthing_? It valueth of ours, in precise speaking, q^{ a.}--q.
גרה _Gerah_. It was the twentieth part of the shekel of the Sanctuary; _A shekel is twenty Gerahs_, _Exod. 30. 13._ It was the least silver coyn among the _Hebrews_; it valued of ours 1 _d. ob._
אגורת _Agorath_: We English it in general, _a piece of silver_, _1 Sa. 2. 36._ But it _appeareth_ by the _Chaldee paraphrase_, that it is of the _same_ value with _Gerah_; that _paraphrase_ renders both מעא _Megna_; by the _Greek_ they are both rendred ὄβολος the value therof therfore is 1 _d. ob._
קשיטה _Keshitah_. The word signifieth a _lamb_, and is used for a certain _coyn_ among the _Hebrews_, on the one side whereof the Image of a _lamb_ was stamped; our _English_ reads it in general, _a piece of mony_. _Jacob_ bought a parcel of a field for an hundred _pieces of mony_, _Gen. 33. 19._ In the original it is, for an hundred _lambs_. But it is apparent, that _Jacob_ paid _mony_; for S. _Stephen_ saith, he bought it for _mony_, _Act. 7. 16._ In the judgment of the _Rabbines_,[784] it was the same that _Obolus_, _twenty of them went to a shekel_;[785] so that the value thereof was 1 _d. ob._
[784] _R. Solom. Gen. 33. 19. It. R. David. in lib. radic. It. Levi ben Gers. Gen. 33. 19._