Luke 12:59

12:59 I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the very last cent!”

Luke 21:2

21:2 He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.

tn Here the English word “cent” is used as opposed to the parallel in Matt 5:26 where “penny” appears, since the Greek word there is different and refers to a different but similar coin.

sn These two small copper coins were lepta (sing. “lepton”), the smallest and least valuable coins in circulation in Palestine, worth one-half of a quadrans or 1/128 of a denarius, or about six minutes of an average daily wage. This was next to nothing in value.