When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
"The fourth part of a shekel of silver"  (1 Samuel 9:8).  The silver shekels were sometimes cut into halves or quarters; and a quarter of this coin, much more valuable then than now, "Weighed approximately 2.5 grams, or one-tenth of an ounce,"[11] of pure silver.