Widow’s Mite Bronze Lepton Coin Portfolio Album

This coin is not a replica, but an actual bronze coin, certified genuine, minted in the Holy Land over 2000 years ago during the reign of King Alexander Jannaeus in the century preceding the birth of Jesus.  What makes these coins of great historical and religious importance is that twice in the Bible, Jesus is quoted as telling the story of the poor widow who gave all that she had which was just two mites. The coin enclosed is identical to the type of coin she would have had.  These coins have been known to collectors for hundreds of years as “Widow’s Mites”   These coins are an actual part of the historical record— a unique, ancient artifact that was handled and used in market stalls by villagers, desert traders, holy men, and Roman soldiers alike in every day transactions.   “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury; and many that were rich cast in much.   And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which ma