Mina (unit)

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A mina (or also simply: mine) is an ancient Greek unit of weight defined as being 50 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency. In ancient Greece it was equal to 100 drachmae.

In ancient Sumerian times, a mana was a unit of weight: 1/60 talents and also 60 shekels. Since the Akkadian period, 2 mana was equal to 1 sila of water.

Note, that the word "mine", in the sens of land mine came from the form of this ancient weigth stone.

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