Verse 15 Thirty pieces of silver. This sum is usually estimated at between fifteen and twenty dollars. The value of money was, however, so very different then from what it now is, that it is impossible to estimate with accuracy the real value of the bribe. If labor was then but a penny a day, (Matthew 20:2,)--the word penny designating, as it does in that case, a Roman coin of about the size of an English sixpence, or an American dime,--and fall other things were in proportion,--fifteen dollars, in those days, might have been equal to fifty or one hundred now.