There were 2500 shekels in one talent, an amount too large to be coined. In the parable of the unjust steward recorded in Matthew's Gospel (18:23-24), the ten thousand talent… debt which the king cancelled was an unimaginably large sum. Matthew must have known his audience would see this as pure rhetoric. (MORE)
Both are currencies. The Shekel is used by Israel and the Lira was currency in Israel, Italy, Malta, San Marino and the Vatican City until the 1980s and those countries' (with… the exception of Israel) conversion to the Euro. The Lira is currently used in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. The Shekel was also an ancient Mesopotamian currency. (MORE)
Israel- it is a denomination of Israeli currency. Shekels had been used as currency in ancient times, but were discontinued in around 135 AD. The New State of Israel revived t…he Shekel in 1980 to replace the Israeli Pound- due to hyperinflation, this was replaced in 1985 with the New Israeli Shekel, which remains currency to this day. It's equivalent value as of July 2017 is $3.77 US dollars, or £5.15 pounds sterling. (MORE)