Israeli hiker finds rare, 2,000-year-old gold coin

washingtonpost.com ^ | March 14, 2016 | Associated Press

[Berlin_Freeper]

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Antiquities Authority says a hiker has found a rare, nearly 2,000-year-old gold coin.

The authority said Monday that the ancient coin appears to be only the second of its kind to have been found. It said London’s British Museum possesses the other coin.

The coin, from the year A.D. 107, bears the image of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. It was minted as part of a series of coins honoring Roman rulers.

[bkopto]

From the article:

The hiker, Laurie Rimon, happened upon the shiny coin on a recent walk in Israel's eastern Galilee region. The authority said she will receive a certificate of appreciation for handing over the coin.

A certificate of appreciation? How cheap can you be? At least give her a modern gold coin of the same weight.

[aquila48]

“A certificate of appreciation? How cheap can you be?”

(No, no, I will not go there)

[Happy Rain]

2000 year old gold coins are usually common?
(sorry, couldn’t resist)

[husky ed]

Only two known and he has one. How do you spell 'eBay'?

Ed

[DaxtonBrown]

Unless it has 107AD stamped on it I’m calling fake.

[Berlin_Freeper]

One late afternoon last summer my daughter and I were searching for sea glass on the beach at Binz, on Rugen Island when I found a 1968 East German pfennig (penny). The pfennig was lying in the wet sand right near the water. :)

[Swordmaker]

Ping

[Berlin_Freeper]

1 Pfennig
We are going back this summer with proper tools!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2000 year old gold coins are usually common?

I knew a German priest who had a desk drawer full of gold and silver Roman coins that had been dug up between 1945 and 1975 on the grounds of a formerly disused church in a part of Germany that had been part of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers would bury coins, and if they died the coins would remain buried for centuries. Roman coins were used in trade as far east as Siberia in ancient times. There must be millions of Roman coins in the possession of collectors.

[Nabber]

I’m rich — I have a Fifty Million Mark note from 1923!!!!

[teeman8r]

Hiking traffic on that particular path is expected to increase

[InterceptPoint]

Here it is.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Swordmaker.

[Godebert]

The reverse of the coin struck c. 107 A.D. under the reign of Trajan:

[I-ambush]

Good find
We’re obsessed with looking for sea glass too

[I-ambush]

Now that’s a Roman nose.

[Godebert]

A more in depth article from the Jewish Press regarding the discovery:

Kibbutznik Laurie Rimon Turns In Extremely Rare Roman Gold Coin

[Berlin_Freeper]

My daughter has an eagle eye. We be walking and she points ahead of us and as we get closer I am like: No, no, no, maybe, maybe, yes? Yes!

[Mashood]

Ft. Bragg, California... Glass Beach.