I just "completed" my ancient Biblical coin collection with my crown jewelry at Shekel of Tyre dating 45 A.D. just 12 years after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Really excited to talk about it and discuss some of my exploration into ancient Biblical coins. This coin is especially notorious as it was effectively blood money, Judas received 30 pieces of silver according to Matthew 27:3 for setting up the chief priests to arrest and ultimate crucify the Annointed One.
Some details regarding the shekel of Tyre.
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Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or tetradrachmas were coins of Tyre, which in the Roman Empire took on an unusual role as the medium of payment for the Temple tax in Jerusalem, and subsequently gained notoriety as a likely mode of payment for Judas Iscariot.
In the latest standard, which was also the one used for the temple tax, the coins bore the likeness of the Phoenician god Melqart or Baal, accepted as the Olympian Herakles by the Greeks and derided as Beelzebub by Jews in the time of the Seleucids, wearing the laurel reflecting his role in the Tyrian games and the ancient Olympic Games.
They also bore the Greek inscription ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (Týrou hierâs kai asýlou, 'of Tyre the holy [city] and [city] of refuge').[1] The coins were the size of a modern Israeli half-shekel and were issued by Tyre, in that form, between 126 BC and AD 56. Earlier Tyrian coins with the value of a tetradrachm, bearing various inscriptions and images, had been issued from second half of the fifth century BC.
Some great samples:
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