Widow's Mite Pendant

Widow's mite bronze coin pendant with 14k white gold bezel

Known as "Prutah" or "Lepton", this ancient bronze coin is the biblical widow's mite. The small bronze coin dates to c.130-40 BCE and is set into a hammer tone 14k white gold bezel. Each side of the coin reveals a different detail. No two coins are exactly alike. The story of the widow's mite tells how, in 30 CE, "Jesus sat over against the (temple) 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... And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them... that this poor widow hath cast more in than all that which have cast into the treasury. For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she did cast in all that she had, even all her living" (Mark 12:41-44).