For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
Now the normal price of a slave was thirty pieces of silver. So this fifteen pieces of silver indicates how completely destitute she had become, probably sick, anemic and all through her wasted life; lost her beauty, lost her desirability. He was able to purchase her for half the price of a slave, fifteen pieces of silver.