A Silver and Gold Ring With Ancient Widows Mite Biblical Coin, ca. 103 - 76 BCE Medium - Canvas where portable devotional jewelry and

where portable devotional jewelry and ornamental amulets were widely produced

According to Muscarella

The glass is of a deep

The plummet (or plumb-line) looks like a pyramid with feet and was most often carved from dark-colored stone

stand with feet together and arms at their sides

A Silver and Gold Ring With Ancient Widows Mite Biblical Coin, ca. 103 - 76 BCE Medium - Canvas where portable devotional jewelry andA very fine bronze Widows Mite (prutah) of the Judean King and High Priest Alexander Jannaeus, beautifully mounted in a modern silver and gold ring. The coin was minted during the Hasmonean period, a brief era of Jewish independence between the Old and New Testaments. It remained in circulation into the time of Christ, and is famously referenced in the Gospel story of the widows offering. The obverse shows a star of eight pellets within a diadem,