Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Wednesday morning announced the discovery of a rare silver coin, roughly 2,500-years-old, which was found in the Judean Hill and considered one of the earliest ...

On the back of the coin, two squares were hammered into the gold staters and one into the silver ones. Soon after Croesus invented modern coinage, the idea was adopted throughout the ancient world.

An 8-year-old German boy has unearthed an extremely rare silver coin while playing in a sandbox, dating to about 1,800 years before he was born.

Rare silver coin dating from the Persian period (5-6th Centuries BCE), discovered in a First Temple-era house in the Judean Hills, in an image released on January 17, 2024.

An 8-year-old boy playing in a sandbox at his elementary school in Germany unearthed an 1,800-year-old silver coin minted during the Roman Empire's Pax Romana.

(JTA) — An 11-year-old girl found a rare silver coin dating from approximately 67-68 CE in dirt from excavations at the City of David park in Jerusalem. Liel Krutokop was visiting the site with ...

17-year-old Reece Pickering found one of just three surviving silver pennies dated to Harold II's reign. Courtesy of Hansons This summer, two British teenagers wielding metal detectors separately ...

The rare coin was discovered by Semyon Gendler, the Acting Judean District Archaeologist of the IAA. The coin, which was broken intentionally, was minted with a square stamp embedded on one face.

A trove of 16 silver coins dating back more than 2,000 years has been uncovered in an excavation in the Israeli municipality of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut.

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