Prutah

Pruta or Prutah or Perutah ( פרוטה; plural: Prutot ) is the name for a currency unit of the Kingdom of Judea, the kingdom of King Herod the Great and his successors, and also for coins of the modern state of Israel.

At the time of NT corresponded to 256 Prutot a shekel.

The ancient coin Pruta was oriented by value at the smallest Roman coin, the Quadrans. However, there was an even smaller coin, the lepton, were calculated from the 2 for a Pruta coin. The image program was inspired by predecessors of the Maccabees. Typical motives were the anchors, ears, Lyra, vine leaf or grapes. The coin is also mentioned several times in the Talmud. The modern Pruta coin was from 1949 to 1960 the thousandth part of that currency Israeli lira. The appearance of the coins was similar to that of the ancient models. From 1960, the Israeli lira was subdivided into hundreds of steps and new coins with the name Agora replaced the Prutot coins.