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The accepted depreciation is 8 pundeyon, which is a rate of two pundeyon per dinar, or 1/6th of a dinar.
The Mishnah continues: Until when is it permitted for one to return a worn coin once he realizes that it is defective? In the cities [bakerakim], one may return it only until a period of time has passed that would allow him to show it to a money changer, who is an expert in matters of coins. In th
And one may give the slightly eroded coin for use in the desacralizing of second-tithe produce and he need not be concerned, as one who would refuse to accept a slightly eroded coin is merely a miserly soul, while the coin is in fact valid for any use.
Talmud: And the Talmud raises a contradiction to the Mishnah from a baraita in which the same measures of depreciation are enumerated, as in that baraita those measures are introduced with the question: How much must the sela coin be eroded so that its use in a transaction at its original value wil
Rav Pappa says: This is not difficult. The tanna of our Mishnah calculates the measures from low to high. The tanna says that it does not constitute exploitation up to, but not including, the levels of depreciation enumerated in the Mishnah. Beginning with those levels of depreciation, it is explo