Half Tyre Shekel, golden Pendant. 14K. composer Constantinople and Trebizond

Constantinople and Trebizond

money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West

While the symbol of the five-fold cross appears to originate in the 11th century

made out of bronze

Half Tyre Shekel, golden Pendant. 14K. composer Constantinople and TrebizondSize: Diameter= 2 cm. 0. 7 inch. 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