One night two decades ago, in a valley outside Jerusalem, a group of looters dug up a startling piece of ancient Jewish history: A silver quarter shekel minted more than 2,000 years ago at the Temple ...

The Quarter Shekel, which was minted in 69 C.E., marked Jewish independence from Rome during the revolt that ended with the siege of Jerusalem and the 73 C.E. mass suicide at Masada.

The silver shekel, valued at $1 million, will be headed back Israel, the result of a five-year global investigation that sent authorities on an ancient coin hunt from the Mile High City to Jerusalem.

It was a single silver shekel that stole the spotlight at a recent New York coin auction. Its gavel price: $1.1 million. Back in the day, the shekel might have represented four days of a soldier ...

(Israel Hayom via JNS) A 2,000-year-old silver half-shekel bearing the Hebrew inscription “Holy Jerusalem” has been discovered in the Judean desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed ...

Eleven-year-old Liel Krutokop from Petah Tikva, digging in ancient dirt at the Emek Tzurim Sifting Project in Jerusalem, unearthed a pure silver shekel coin dating from the Second Temple period some 2 ...

A rare silver quarter shekel — valued at $1 million — that was looted from an archeological site in Israel has been returned to the country, Manhattan prosecutors said this week.

The quarter shekel silver coin, made in the year 69, is one of just two confirmed to exist. The other has been in the British Museum’s collection for a century.

An ancient Judean shekel coin was sold at auction for $1.1 million. The coin, the first silver shekel struck in Jerusalem by Jewish forces rebelling against the Romans in the first century, was ...

Still, let me state that shekalim (singular: shekel) are silver coins which were issued by the insurgents during the revolt against the Romans as an expression of their independence, and then ...

A silver shekel coin from 67 AD. (@ModernTalmud / X screen shot) A search for weapons in Ibillin, a town in northern Israel, revealed a far more valuable cache.