Gerah

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gerah \Ge"rah\, n. [Heb. g?rah, lit., a bean.] (Jewish Antiq.)
     A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The silver gerah is supposed to have been worth about
           three cents; the gold about fifty-four cents; the


           weight equivalent to about thirteen grains.
           [1913 Webster]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gerah
     a bean, probably of the carob tree, the smallest weight, and
     also the smallest piece of money, among the Hebrews, equal to
     the twentieth part of a shekel (Ex. 30:13; Lev. 27:25; Num.
     3:47). This word came into use in the same way as our word
     "grain," from a grain of wheat.