Note 285 — Chapter XIV · THE LAWS OF THE KENTISH KINGS.

In translating Luke xx. 24 and Mark xii. 15, ‘Show me a penny,’ the word used to translate ‘denarius’ is skatt.

Again, Luke vii. 41, the two debtors, one owing 500 and the other 50 denarii, are translated by Ulphilas as owing ‘skatte finfhunda’ and ‘skatte finftiguns.’

Again in John xii. 5, ‘Why was not the ointment sold for 300 denarii?’ ‘ccc skatti’ are the words used, and so also in the parallel passage Mark xi. 5, ‘thrijahunda skatti.’

In all these cases it seems to be clear that the skatt is the coin. And that it was a silver coin seems to be shown by the use by Ulphilas of the word skatt in reference to the ‘thirty pieces of silver’ in Matt. xxvii. 6-9.