Each piece in this line of jewelry holds a genuine "widow's mite", an excavated coin, in use in 1st century Palestine. The coin was immortalized by Jesus when he spoke of the generous widow. Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins (mites). And he said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all the others; they gave from their surplus, but she put in all that she had to live on." Luke 21: 1-4