Hoard of 425 24-carats gold coins was stowed in a clay jar, its lid secured with a nail, and stashed in the sands of what is now central Israel.

It then sat undisturbed for more than 1,100 years, until last week, when two 18-year-olds taking part in an archaeological excavation by a hillside in Yavneh noticed something unusual.

“I dug in the ground and, when I excavated the soil, saw what looked like very thin leaves,” said Oz Cohen, one of the teenagers.

“When I looked again, I saw these were gold coins.

It was really exciting to find such a special and ancient treasure.”

The teenagers were volunteers in a vast project linked to the construction of a community in Yavneh, south of Tel Aviv.


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The coins date back to the late 9th century, at the height of the Abbasid Caliphate that once controlled the lion's share of the Near East and North Africa, explained Antiquities Authority numismatist Robert Kool.

At the time they were stashed, the coins would have been worth a significant amount of money, explained Antiquities Authority numismatist Robert Kool.

'For example, with such a sum, a person could buy a luxurious house in one of the best neighbourhoods in Fustat, the enormous wealthy capital of Egypt,' he added.


Pictured, Israeli archaeologist Shahar Krispin counts some of the gold coins.

Israel Antiquities Authority, said the find was a “rare treasure” that could help archaeologists gain a deeper understanding of what was happening in the region at the time.


'The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it and even secured the vessel with a nail so that it would not move,' said excavation director Liat Nadav-Ziv.

'We can only guess what prevented him from returning to collect this treasure.'

The treasure trove was hidden by its mysterious owner in an area that, during the Abbasid period, is understood to have been populated by workshops.

The era in which the unearthed coins were used is one of the least understood in the area’s history.



The excavation site near Tel Aviv.

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Vanity.

Judas's funds

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Judas was paid silver

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oomphh:
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Judas's funds

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Explorer explore the explored word

This is very interesting.
Thanks OP for sharing it.

MJBOLT:

what's the value of the gold coins?

According to the source, the weight is around 1kg.

But items like this worth million of USD or GPB because of the stories behind them.

Why can't I ever find these kind of things in Nigeria? I don dig my backyard tire, no treasure or anything of importance to sell

How interesting

someone saved so much for us in Nigeria. Since he died in1998, we have been unearthing his golden coins from Switzerland, US and other foreign nations

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Lotusflowerbomb:
Why can't I ever find these kind of things in Nigeria? I don dig my backyard tire, no treasure or anything of importance to sell

Relocate to Nok, Ile-Ife, Ijebu-Ode, Benin, Katsina, Ijero-Ekiti or Close to Lake Chad and start ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION, you will discover some many ancient artifacts.

Nigeria is yet to be fully explored.

My brother-in-law who is a Professor of Archeology led a team of Archeologist to unearth a site outskirt of Iresi Town in Osun State and they discovered what looked like a family compound of people who lived centuries ago.

Their remains dated to about 5000 years ago.

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Explorers:


According to the source, the weight is around 1kg.

But items like this worth million of USD or GPB because of the stories behind them.

Who will the money go to? The teenagers that found them?

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anastasius:
In 1000years to come, Nairaland moderators would be gone and forgotten. You people need to stop acting like gods. Nonsense and moderators

You'll still be alive by then, right?

Fortunate Find. Are sure it's not Judas that kept it there