This is a genuine Roman coin over two thousand years old exactly like the one that Judas Iscariot was paid thirty pieces of silver for to betray Jesus with a kiss and turn him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified. It was the price paid for a common slave in those days.
After betraying Christ, Judas found repentance and returned to the Pharisees to give the money back. He realized that it was blood money and wanted no part of it. He believed that Jesus was the Son of God and knew that he had done something pretty terrible. His conscious bothered him so much that he hung himself to find forgiveness. His corpse rotted and his entrails fell to the ground before him. The land is known as the field
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