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Israeli hiker finds rare, 2,000-year-old gold coin
washingtonpost.com ^ | March 14, 2016 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/15/2016 1:12:30 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

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1 posted on 03/15/2016 1:12:30 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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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.

2 posted on 03/15/2016 1:23:46 AM PDT by bkopto
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“A certificate of appreciation? How cheap can you be?”

(No, no, I will not go there)


3 posted on 03/15/2016 1:25:52 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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


4 posted on 03/15/2016 1:30:24 AM PDT by Happy Rain (CRUZ 2016 "Closest Thing We Have To Reagan" - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Only two known and he has one. How do you spell 'eBay'?

Ed

5 posted on 03/15/2016 1:37:24 AM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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


6 posted on 03/15/2016 2:05:16 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: 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. :)


7 posted on 03/15/2016 2:16:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Ping


8 posted on 03/15/2016 2:19:58 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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1 Pfennig
We are going back this summer with proper tools!
9 posted on 03/15/2016 2:21:56 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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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.

10 posted on 03/15/2016 3:43:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Prendre cinq et rendre quatre ce n'est pas donner.)
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I’m rich — I have a Fifty Million Mark note from 1923!!!!


11 posted on 03/15/2016 3:51:26 AM PDT by Nabber
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Hiking traffic on that particular path is expected to increase


12 posted on 03/15/2016 3:51:45 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Here it is.


13 posted on 03/15/2016 4:25:46 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Swordmaker; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Swordmaker.

14 posted on 03/15/2016 4:38:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: InterceptPoint
The reverse of the coin struck c. 107 A.D. under the reign of Trajan:


15 posted on 03/15/2016 4:47:45 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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


16 posted on 03/15/2016 4:51:57 AM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning.)
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Now that’s a Roman nose.


17 posted on 03/15/2016 4:52:56 AM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
A more in depth article from the Jewish Press regarding the discovery:

Kibbutznik Laurie Rimon Turns In Extremely Rare Roman Gold Coin

18 posted on 03/15/2016 4:58:39 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: I-ambush

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!


19 posted on 03/15/2016 5:00:43 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: I-ambush

Ft. Bragg, California... Glass Beach.


20 posted on 03/15/2016 5:17:49 AM PDT by Mashood
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