Rare, 2,700-year-old clay seal discovered in Jerusalem

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[Billyv]

God providing forensic evidence of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. UN can you hear God now?

[SJackson]

ping

[reg45]

1300 years before the Muslims arrived.

[Lucky2]

Prophecy is coming true

[Slyfox]

Jerusalem is legally owned by the Jews. David paid for the land.

[beethovenfan]

Of course, the Jews have no historical claim to Jerusalem (sarc).

[Preachin']

That is very cool.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson, with a happy new year long weekend ping to the Digest list, and a link to a similar topic, just seen a few minutes ago.

• 1st-Temple-period seal exposed in Kotel Plaza excavations

[Revel]

[Bogie]

This is why it is silly for anyone to say that the city should not be the capital city of Israel.

Plus the Jewish commitment to historic preservation is in absolute opposition to the philosophy of destruction that we have seen with Islamic State.

[Bobalu]

And here's a rare coin...seriously.

From about 170B.C.

[roadcat]

And here's a rare coin...seriously.

Not seriously, I also have an ancient coin that's somewhat beat up. I know, because it's stamped "237 BC" or something similar. My dad was an officer of a local coin club, and one of the other members gave it to me as a souvenir gag gift. One of the best coins I own, even though it's worthless.

[a fool in paradise]

Eat more Ovaltine?

[Vermont Lt]

I must be tired. I thought they were talking about a grey seal with a ball on its nose.

Oh well.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I saw what you did there.

[John Milner]

Wasn’t that on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Album?

[Bobalu]

I found the same coins at coin shop websites.

Some extremely similar, some a bit different.

But then they had to re-make the iron dies since they wore out quickly....not too many were exactly similar.

They would work the iron, then test it's impression in damp clay to see what it looked like.

Some looked even more like Trump.

Modern dies look like this and are made of extremely hard stainless steel.

[onedoug]

I have a Roman coin referencing Constantine.

[Ciexyz]

Very cool indeed.