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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

(to nomisma tou kensou (Mt 22:19), "the coin used in payment of the imperial taxes"): Lit. "the lawful money of the tax," which, in the case of the poll tax, had to be paid in current coin of the realm (see Mt 17:27).