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The mina (or also: mine) is an ancient Greek unit of weight defined as being 50 shekels.
The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency. In ancient Greece it was equal to 100 drachmae.

In ancient Sumerian times, a m'na was a unit of weight; but talents and shekels had not yet been introduced. 1/60 talents and also 60 shekels. M'na (mina) weight is calculated at 1.25 pounds¹² or 0.571 kilograms.

Evidence from Ugarit indicates that a mina was equivalent to fifty shekels³. The prophet Ezekiel refers to a mina ('maneh' in the King James Version) as sixty shekels⁴.
Jesus Christ tells the "parable of the ten Minas" in the New Testament book of Luke - chapter 19:11-27.

Since the Akkadian period, 2 m'na was equal to 1 sila of water (cf. clepsydra, water clock).

Images

Mina of Athens.

Mina of Chios.

Mina of Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Mina of Antioch.

References

^ [1] Calculation of weight by number of shekels.
^ [2] Jewish Encyclopedia
^ Tenney, Merril ed., The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol. 5, "Weights and Measures," Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1976.
^ Ezekiel 45:12

Note, that the word "mine", in the sense of land mine came from the form of this ancient weight stone.

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