[SunkenCiv]

another article, also interesting:

Cache of Hasmonean-era silver coins uncovered in Modiin
http://www.timesofisrael.com/cache-of-hasmonean-era-silver-coins-uncovered-in-modiin/

[Netz]

But...but Mahmoud Abbas didn't kick, scream and shout the the PLO was the official minting house BEFORE the Jews (Hebrews) minted them??

Plaeostinians: CONGENITAL LIARS since 1964...

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks for posting that.

[ConservativeMind]

“Can you spare a shekel for an old ex-leper?”

[DAC21]

Just how many coins are considered a hoard? They sure aren’t going to make any Goldline commercials with just 16 coins.

[Phinneous]

In before BCE tantrum folk. Nya Nya.

[Zeppo]

Closer analysis of the coins showed that the cache contains one or two coins from every year between 135 to 126 BCE...

It must have been really interesting to be a coin collector back then.

"I just got a couple of the newly minted 132 BCE shekels. They're great, but I hear that the ones that will be coming out in 131 will be even more awesome"...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I read of the find of one of these coin stashes, I often wonder what the person went through to save that amount, and what led to the hiding of it, and why the person never returned to claim the stash.

In the past have been found...
Philistine pieces of silver.
Hasmonean-era silver coins.
Roman coins.
Byzantine gold coins.
Then there are the various Viking stashes found.

[Robert DeLong]

Lots of hidden treasures scattered around the globe.

[Sawdring]

A proof set from that date range is very hard to come by.