Farthing
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- Mt 10:29; Lk 12:6. Greek assarion, i.e., a small as, which was a Roman coin equal to a tenth of a denarius or drachma, nearly equal to a halfpenny of our money.
- Mt 5:26; Mk 12:42 (Gr. kodrantes), the quadrant, the fourth of an as, equal to two lepta, mites. The lepton (mite) was the very smallest copper coin.
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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