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

Constantinople and Trebizond

First: wood

and our attention is drawn – as always with icons of the Theotokos – to her Son

To test and see which one of these crosses truly belonged to Jesus Christ

he had a silver replica of his hand fashioned and attached it to the icon

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