shekel

So how much would a shekel be worth today?

Consider the case of Israel, which in the face of the economic crisis engaged in massive foreign currency intervention to weaken the shekel.

Coins as money didn't start to be common until about 500 BC, and a shekel was a unit of weight before it was a coin.

He gave Samuel thequarter shekel of silver, but Samuel refused to take it.

Yet in January he reluctantly imposed reserve requirements on foreign-currency derivatives to cool speculative buying of the shekel.

and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.

In Europe, Gruie at BNP Paribas recommends going short the Czech crown, and long the Israeli shekel.

shekels of cassia-all according to the sanctuary shekel-and a hin of olive oil.

Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Israel has intervened even more forcefully to weaken the shekel.

The New Israeli shekel (NIS, currency code ILS) is the currency of Israel.

Reluctantly, the policeman takes Arafat and Suha to the station where the Palestinian leader receives a 100 shekel fine.

From the firstborn of the Israelites he collected silver weighing 1, 365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel ;

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary;

The shekel of the sanctuary