Mina

MINA, or Mna; a Species of Money, called in Hebrew Min, or Mina, or Maneh, which properly signifies one Part or Ounce. I observe this Word only in the Books of Kings, Chronicles, Ezra and Ezekiel. This Prophet tells us, that the Mina or Maneh was valued at sixty Shekels, which in Gold make of our English Money about 54¾ Pounds, and in Silver almost seven Pounds. Thus for the Hebrew Maneh. But the Greek or Attick Mina, which is probably that mentioned in the Books of the Maccabees, and in the New Testament, is valued at an hundred Drachmæ, or about two Pound seventeen Shillings Sterling. There was also a lesser Mina, which was valued at seventy five Drachmæ.

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