Charles Ellicott Commentary Exodus 38:25

"And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:" — Exodus 38:25 (ASV)

The silver ... was an hundred talents. —The silver talent contained 3,000 shekels, as all agree, and as this passage shows. If the shekel of the sanctuary weighed, as is generally supposed, about 220 grains troy, the value of the silver contributed would have been £40,000, or a little under. It was contributed by them that were numbered of the congregation, each of whom paid a bekah, or half a shekel. (See above, Exodus 30:12–16.)