mina
noun
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
minas
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pluralof mina.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He also made weights corresponding with the coinage, sixty-three minas going to the talent; and the odd three minas were distributed among the staters and the other values.
From The Athenian Constitution by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Usually it was an amount of silver, one shekel up to three minas.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
For we read:757 Six minas belong to A and B and are given to C the slave of B as capital.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
The judge laid on him a fine of two hundred and ten minas of copper.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Charikles a mina gave him, fearing he might say Charikles himself was born in a suspicious way; And Nikias five minas gave.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
