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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 7846054, member: 5682&quot;]<b>[ATTACH=full]1350541[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1350557[/ATTACH] </b></p><p>“Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a wine press, a rare gold coin and other artifacts linked to a settlement that stood in what’s now the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Ha-Sharon some 1,500 years ago.“</p><p><br /></p><p>“One of the rare and surprising finds discovered in the excavation is a gold coin, minted in 638 or 639 by the Byzantine emperor Hercules. On one side appears the emperor with his two sons, and on the other – a cross on the hill of Golgotha, on which, according to Christian tradition, the crucifixion of Jesus took place.”</p><p>“Someone scratched an inscription, likely the name of the coin’s owner, onto its surface in Greek and possibly Arabic, according to <a href="https://antiquities.academia.edu/RobertKool" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://antiquities.academia.edu/RobertKool" rel="nofollow">Robert Kool</a>, a coin expert with the IAA.“</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350551[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/byzantine-era-wine-press-gold-coin-found-near-tel-aviv-180978501/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/byzantine-era-wine-press-gold-coin-found-near-tel-aviv-180978501/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/byzantine-era-wine-press-gold-coin-found-near-tel-aviv-180978501/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://middleeast.in-24.com/News/amp/177811" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://middleeast.in-24.com/News/amp/177811" rel="nofollow">https://middleeast.in-24.com/News/amp/177811</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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