37.2 kg based on such estimates as the weight of one full Aeginetan metretes of coins, and concluded that the Aeginetan talent represented the water weight of a Babylonian ephah: 36.29 kg by his reckoning (the metretes and the ephah were units of volume). Percy Gardner estimated a weight of 37.32 kg, based on extant weights and coins. An Aeginetan talent was worth 60 Aeginetan minae, or 6,000 Aeginetan drachmae. Talent in late Hebrew antiquity The talent (, kikkar; Aramaic: , ) in late Hebrew antiquity (c. 500 CE) was the greatest unit of weight in use at the time, and which weight varied depending on the era. According to the Jerusalem Talmud (Sanhedrin 9a, Pnei Moshe Commentary, s.v. ), the weight of the talent at the time of Moses was double that of the Roman era talent, which latter had the weight of either 100 maneh (), or 60 maneh (Roman ), each maneh (libra) having the weight of 25 selas (sela being a term used for the biblical Shekel of Tyrian coinage, or 'shekel of the Sanctuary', and where there were 4 provincial denarii or zuz to each sela; 25 selas being equivalent to 100 denaria). The standard talent during the late Second Temple period was the talent consisting of 60 maneh. According to Talmudic scholars, the talent (kikkar) of 60 maneh (and which sum total of 60 maneh equals 1,500 selas, or 6,000 denarii (the denarius also being known in Hebrew as zuz), had a weight of 150 dirham for every 25 selas. The anatomic weight of each dirham at that time was put at 3.20 grammes, with every sela or 'shekel of the sanctuary' weighing-in at 20.16 grammes. The sum aggregate of the 60 maneh talent (or 1,500 selas) came to c. . According to Adani, in the silver coinage known as the Mughal India rupaiya, minted during British colonial rule (each with a weight of grammes (1 tola), of which weight only 91.7% was of fine silver), one talent (Heb. kikkar) would have amounted to 2,343 of these silver coins in specie (), in addition to the minuscule weight of 12 ma’in (10.08 grammes). Other talents The talent as a unit of value is mentioned in the New Testament in Jesus' parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14–30). The use of the word "talent" to mean "gift or skill" in English and other languages originated from