Mark 12:42

And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

Barnes commented on the value of this gift thus:

Mite denotes a small coin made of brass, the smallest in use among the Jews, and the value of which cannot be exactly known. Their farthing was of less value than the English farthing. It was worth about three mills and a half, or about one-third of a copper cent.[16]

Cranfield pointed out that the word that Mark used for MITE is related to quadrans, a term prevalent in Rome but not in Jerusalem; and from this he concluded that Mark was writing "in the west."[17]

[16] Albert Barnes, Notes on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1955), p. 377.

[17] C. E. B. Cranfield, op. cit., p. 386.