mina

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MI'NA, noun [Latin mina ] A weight or denomination of money. The mina of the Old Testament was valued at sixty shekels. The Greek or Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas, about f2. l7s.sterling, $10.44 cents.
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