shekel

People here talked about Israel: the Shekel is not a currency anybody except them use, but they churn out successful startups at an incredible pace.

Your shekel could purchase more in the time of Herod than it could in the time of Netanyahu.

The Israeli one shekel coin was counterfeited so much that it was more common than the real coin.

At this point, a shekel is a unit of weight, not a coin, but is already being used as, effectively, money.

New Israeli shekel is really, really close — 3.56 to 3.62 both now and 10 years ago.

So maybe it's not that accurate or that effective, but when it does work it's worth almost every dollar or shekel spent.

Boy how I love them all, especially Egypt, which looks like the shekel symbol, and the arches.

The primary being that the authors thought that Israeli options are denominated in shekels, when they are in fact denominated in agarot (1/100th of a shekel).

From the Code of Hammurabi (~1750BCE): > If a man rents a boat of 60-[kur] capacity, he shall give one-sixth [of a shekel] of silver per day as its hire.

Do I hate every single shekel they get from me?

It's true that many early currencies are named after some commodity (shekel being a good example) because governments imposed a tax in a commodity and that then became the unit of account.

Prices in Ancient Greece in Athens in the 5th century BC 1 loaf of bread 1 obolos The standard rate for a prostitute 3 oboloi 6 oboloi are 1 drahma, about 4 drahmai to the shekel.

That's the same reason "peso" means "weight" and the "shekel" and "pound" take their name from units of weight.

Why say "shekel" here instead of "dollar"?

It's probably because the use of "shekel" is slang in the US, and it carries a connotation of "very low amount of currency." It's idiomatic rather than a dog whistle in this use.

So, while maybe not grammatically correct enough to write in a book, it doesn't sound foreign to say "zero meter" to mean "very close" or "zero shekel" to mean "free of charge".

Exponents can be increased indefinitely, and eventually re numbered, like the New Israeli Skekel = 1000 old Israeli Shekel.

This made me think of ₪, the sign for Israeli New Shekel.

Interesting things from this: - Smallest animal: Myxobolus Shekel.