Posted on 01/05/2020 9:15:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA), which issued a release surrounding the findings, said the archaeologists were "surprised" when they made the discovery. The IAA added that the area in which the discovery was made was an "ancient industrial area" that was active for several hundred years.
The archaeologists said in the release that the gold coins could have been "a potters personal 'piggy bank.'"
Robert Kool, a coin expert at IAA, said one of the coins appears to date to the 8th or 9th century, between 786 and 809 A.D., during the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
In another part of the dig site, a wine production site was also discovered, related to the Persian period in the 4th to 5th century B.C.
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These are some of the newer topics from Archaeologica posted since end of November, some of them have been posted, some didn't have much to post and were ignored, some were duplicated. I have saved some in files (at work, hey, I was on break) but didn't get a chance to FReepmail them to myself.
Or how hard he had to work to amass that small fortune and what he gave up in order to save those coins. How much of what would one of them have bought? Be interesting to know the buying power of gold in those days.
He’s DEAD, Jim................
Those ones are fake... The coins has images of Bill and Monica, Hillary, King Obama and Queen Michael... :-)
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