The first usage of the term shekel,…

3069 BCE to 2926 BCE

The first usage of the term shekel, an ancient unit of weight and currency, appears from Mesopotamia circa 3000 BCE and refers to a specific weight of barley, which relates other values in a metric such as silver, bronze, copper etc.

A barley/shekel is originally both a unit of currency and a unit of weight.

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