Commentary for Bekhorot 9:38

ויהי מאת ככר הכסף לצקת וגו' הנך לצקת ואינך בי גזא

But since Scripture does not record them except in units [of shekels,] you may deduce from here that the sacred maneh was double the common.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore the seventy-one maneh i.e. the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, could not be counted in terms of kikkar, as there would then be one hundred and twenty maneh in a kikkar.');">²³</span>

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