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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 ...
Tommy Jefferies, a resident of the Silver Shekel neighborhood in unincorporated Breckenridge, provided Summit Daily News a receipt showing a $789 refund that Waste Management provided him after ...
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.
The agrarian economy operated on credit denominated in barley units, assigned a value equal to the silver shekel in order to strike a common measure. Money Loans and Long-Distance Trade ...
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.
(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 ...
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.
Looted ancient Jewish coin returned by U.S. authorities to Israel Antiquities Authority The quarter shekel silver coin, minted in the year 69, is believed to be one of just two confirmed to exist.
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.
Among the looted coins was the silver quarter shekel from 69 C.E. –– one year before the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
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.