The shekels did not have an equal weight
In ancient Hebrew era, the measure of currency was expressed by the shekel, which were weighed away instead of counted. In the ancient tombs of Egypt, traces of scales were saw engraved on the walls, which signified the wealth of their landlords. The tyre shekel did not have an equal weight and the main clause of currency or barter among Egyptians was the lambs. The term shekel in Hebrew way to weigh, and become a term in the language of currency.Originally, gold and silver were applied in lumps, nuggets, or bars and in these peculiar types they can be weighed elsewhere, and because they were weighed out they can be excercised as payments for commercialized transactions. On the island of Aegina, the Greeks stamped a turtle on the 1st silver coins ended 700 B.C. The Greeks continued stamping symbols of owls and another images and objects on their coins until Alexander the Solid decided that the coins should have portraits or heads of live people and rulers.
