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I checked a few of the manuscripts I am familiar with, but I could not find anything about Judas.

The Alchemical Herbal features three four variants of Lunaria (#56, 69, 79, 86), but I have seen no reference to coins, silver etc.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. briefly mentions that a powder made of Lunaria turns copper into gold and tin into silver: this clearly is an alchemical process.

The Catalan manuscript I translated You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is much more extensive and it contains similar alchemical references: the plant turns silver and copper into gold. I think that the leaves are said to look like silver florins (I am not sure that florins are meant, the word "fironus" is obscure).

This text is related with the Hermetic "De Arbore qui dicitur Borissa id est Lunatica" that I discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. In this case, there is no doubt that the leaves are said to look like coins (folia sunt rotunda ad modum dinariorum). Here the alchemical operation is a transmutation of silver into gold.

An alchemical Lunaria plants appear in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. I haven't fully transcribed the text, which is difficult to read, it could be partly ciphered and / or obscured (e.g. "de oro et de argento" - of gold and silver - was obscured as "de prp et de 6rgbntp").

   

Here the plant is used to "multiply" gold and silver: i.e. you need a small amount of the metals to start from and you use the Lunaria powder to generate more.

To summarize: the round or crescent-shaped leaves were associated with the Moon and consequently with silver (each of the seven metals was thought to be ruled by a planet, and silver was the metal of the moon). Some texts point out that the round leaves look like coins. One can speculate that the "doctrine of signatures" caused believes connected with silver and coins and therefore a connection with alchemy.