Half Tyre Shekel, golden Pendant. 14K. composer and our attention is drawn

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

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

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

Size:- 35x8

maker's mark for Gustav Klingert

Half Tyre Shekel, golden Pendant. 14K. composer and our attention is drawnSize: 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