Widow's Mites
These tiny bronze coins have a star on one side, and an anchor on the other. They were minted in Judea from 103-76 BC. It is generally accepted that they circulated for up to a century- occasionally longer, up to and past the time of Christ. They were commonly called prutah, lepton, or mites. Today we know them as Widow's Mites. These coins are specifically mentioned in Mark 12: 41-44.

"And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites... and he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all she had."