Copper Coins - The Video Bible Dictionary

Disclaimer: This is our first run at the Video Bible Dictionary, we'd love your feedback, so please leave a comment.
These are actual 2,000 year old copper coins! I was blown away when we were allowed to handle these coins, normally they'd be behind glass in a museum, but here we were handling and looking at them. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. This was filmed on location in Jerusalem Israel.
I have to give special thanks to the incredibly kind and generous guys at Bassam Barakat Antiquities who let us not only hold, but also film these 2,000 year old coins.
Thank you so much @barakantiquities, you guys rock!
If you ever find yourself needing genuine, authenticated, ancient artifacts, both from the period of the Bible, or other periods, then honestly, these are the guys you should be talking to.
Even if you're not buying and are in the old city of Jerusalem, pop your head in and say hello.
Their website is: www.bbarakat.com
Facebook: bbarakatantiquities
Actor/guide/interpreter - Richie Savo
Camera - Hamish Jordan ( / hamishjordan , www.hamishjorda...)
Narrator - Mark Murfitt
Editor - Jonnie Conibeer
Produced, Directed - Mark Murfitt
Transcript:
"Copper Coins
Copper coins were the smallest value coin.
128 copper coins were worth the same as one denarii.
People were paid one denarii for a day's work.
People made and used copper coins hundreds of years before Jesus’ birth.
People were still using these coins at the time Jesus was alive.
A copper coin was very small in size, the same size as a thumbnail on a person's hand.
A copper coin was made of copper or brass.
A person could buy a piece of bread with one copper coin.
Jesus praised a widow for putting two copper coins into the offering box at the temple because even though it was not worth much, it was everything she had. "
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What is the Video Bible Dictionary?
How do you explain what a desert wilderness is to someone who’s only ever lived in a jungle? Or how can a person understand what a winnowing fork is when they’ve never seen one?
The Video Bible Dictionary is an ambitious project to film items, objects and places mentioned in the Bible which will be collated into a single resource (a dictionary of sorts) to help people understand and read the Bible; basically what the things and places in the Bible really look like.
Who’s it for?
The primary audience is for Oral Preference Learners, however everyone and anyone will benefit from a more literal understanding of actual places and items from the Bible.
What’s an Oral Preference Learner?
A person who prefers to listen, learn and pass on information orally rather than through reading (most of us, right?). This ‘person’ finds context critical in understanding the world around them, hence every video in the Video Bible Dictionary will show the item, object and place in context of a person.
By way of an example; do you remember those old school textbooks which showed a silhouette of a dinosaur with a silhouette of a person standing next to them? It gave you an understanding of how big the dinosaur was compared to a person, right? This is the same thing.
Why do this?
The Video Bible Dictionary is part of a larger project to provide a resource to support the local church around the world as they teach and share Jesus with those who have yet to hear about Him.
Who do you work for?
This project is being produced by SRV in partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators and ETEN (short for ‘Every Tribe Every Nation’).
Who am I?
My name is Mark Murfitt, I live in the UK and it’s my privilege to produce and direct these videos as well as to oversee the script writing and media production for this project.
Is something like this really necessary?
Absolutely.
For many people, in both developed and developing countries, much of what we’re videoing isn’t known, understood or believed to actually be real.
Is this work copyright protected?
The source video and voiceover are shareable, this version with the music isn’t unfortunately.
This version contains material that has some form of copyright and cannot be freely distributed. For a shareable version of this video under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, please contact us!
* There may be other scriptures where this item, object or place is featured, this isn't and shouldn't be used as an exclusive list