Pleeeease someone do it for me <| sep |> I listen to all types of metal . I can literally go from something like Judas Priest to cannibal corpse without any reaction . <| sep |> NOT WHEN DMB FALCHION GIANTMOM ROLLS INTO TOWNBAN THIS SICK FILTH <| sep |> Copyposting a post by ulacedaimonAncient numismatist here . The silver pieces referred to in the New Testament is one we call the shekel of Tyre . As mentioned by someone else here , it had a value of 4 drachms , or what ' s called a tetradrachm . A drachma was a soldiers daily wage , and would be approximately $ 50 to $ 60 in today ' s money . So we can estimate that each tetradrachm is about $ 200 , and so we ' re looking at about $ 6000 though this is a pretty rough estimate , it ' s close . I have owned a number of them , this is what they look like 30 pieces of silver is equivalent of 120 days ' 4 months wages of a soldier . Nothing to sneeze at , I suppose , especially if Judas was given a pardon as well associating with an insurrectionist ? .