⅛ Shekel Hacksilber ingot

Hacksilber — weighed silver used as currency before coinage existed in the Levant — circulated throughout the Iron Age southern Levant as a practical payment medium alongside shekel-weight standards derived from Mesopotamian metrology. This fragment's weight conforms to the one-eighth shekel subdivision, suggesting it was deliberately cut to meet a specific transaction requirement rather than broken incidentally. The Tel Miqne and City of David hoards have produced comparable pieces, sometimes mixed with ingots, jewelry fragments, and foreign silver, confirming these were actively managed as fungible monetary material well into the late monarchic period.