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On the extraordinary use of gold in the Temple, see Joachim Jeremias, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus (London: SCM Press, 1969), pp. 24–25.

Mishnah, Yoma 3:10.

Josephus, Jewish War 5.222.

Baba Batra 4a.

Letter of Aristeas 84–85.

Josephus, Antiquities 20.219.

Suetonius, Titus 4.

Suetonius, Vespasian 4.

So Tenney Frank, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome vol. 5: Rome and Italy of the Empire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940), p. 45.

Carol H. V. Sutherland (“The State of the Imperial Treasury at the Death of Domitian,” Journal of Roman Studies 25 [1935] p. 158 n. 62), states that an emendation by Guillaume Budé to quadragies, i.e. four thousand million, has been noted by Maximilian Ihm in his editio minor of Suetonius, Vespasian 16.3 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1933) 305; but the unanimous reading of the manuscripts is quadringenties.