Gerah Judea

Yehud Medinata — "the province of Judah" — was a Persian administrative district carved out of the former Judahite heartland after Babylonian captivity. The right to strike coin was a privilege extended by the Achaemenid crown to certain loyal provinces, and Yehud used it to produce some of the smallest silver coinage in the ancient world. These tiny issues circulated alongside Persian sigloi and Athenian fractions in a regional economy where precious metal was weighed as much as counted.

The gerah itself is a biblical unit — one-twentieth of a shekel — which makes the denomination a deliberate act of cultural continuity within an imperial administrative framework.