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Jim Higgins

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Dec 22, 2008, 12:06:40 PM12/22/08
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British tourist strikes gold in Jerusalem parking lot
http://tinyurl.com/a3jn54

Dec. 22, 2008
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST

Hundreds of gold coins from the seventh century have been uncovered
just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, the Israel Antiquities
Authority announced Monday.

The hoard of 264 gold coins was discovered Sunday by a British tourist
volunteering at the ongoing dig in a parking lot outside the Dung Gate
in the ancient City of David.

The find is "one of the largest and most impressive" coins hoards even
discovered in Jerusalem, and by far the largest and most important of
its period, said Dr. Doron Ben-Ami who is directing the excavation at
the site.

The Byzantine-era hoard was found in the runs of a building where a
striking 2,000-year-old gold earring from the Roman era was dug up
last month.

The coins, which had likely been hidden in a niche in one of the
building's walls, bear the image of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius,
who ruled between 610 and 641 C.E.

He is depicted wearing military dress and holding a cross in his right
hand.

Previously, the only hoard of gold coins from the Byzantine Period
that had been discovered in Jerusalem consisted of a mere five gold
coins.

Bob Hairgrove

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Dec 22, 2008, 12:30:56 PM12/22/08
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Jim Higgins wrote:
> British tourist strikes gold in Jerusalem parking lot
> http://tinyurl.com/a3jn54
>
> Dec. 22, 2008
> Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST
>
> Hundreds of gold coins from the seventh century have been uncovered
> just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, the Israel Antiquities
> Authority announced Monday.

Wonderful ... finally some real Chanukah gelt! :)

MJKolodziej

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Dec 22, 2008, 1:49:51 PM12/22/08
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"Jim Higgins" <gordi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Anyone read this months National Geographic?
mk


Mark B.

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Dec 22, 2008, 6:27:55 PM12/22/08
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Let me guess.......the fool didn't keep any for himself.


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note.boy

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"MJKolodziej" <mjmwcsREMOV...@htcomp.net> wrote in message
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I will be able to read it at the dentist in 2015. Billy


Tony Clayton

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Dec 24, 2008, 6:50:28 AM12/24/08
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In a recent message "Mark B." <belli...@aol.spam.com> wrote:

> Let me guess.......the fool didn't keep any for himself.
>

Herself (a British girl), and of course she couldn't!

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Tony Clayton tony.cla...@pem.cam.ac.uk
Coins of the UK : http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk
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... We all have failures. The question is, what do we do with them?

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