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 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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Archaeology Silver Shekel Stash: 2,000-Year-old Coins Uncovered in Israel News By Mindy Weisberger published June 8, 2016 ...

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.