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Sumerian texts feature the earliest mentions of a weight unit, the mina, which tipped the scales at about 500 grams, or 18 ounces.

It grew out of a much older Sephardic tradition of Passover pies, or casseroles, called minas.

“If a man strike a gentleman’s daughter that she dies, his own daughter is to be put to death, if a poor man’s the slayer pays � mina.”

And so it came about that the mina contained fifty shekels instead of sixty, and the talent 3,000 shekels instead of 3,600.

The presents of the Libyans were graciously accepted by Cambyses, but the 500 minae which the Cyrenaeans sent, he threw with his own hand among the people because "it was too little."