Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 8527016, member: 5682&quot;][ATTACH=full]1506985[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>I hope this isn’t a duplicate post:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>JERUSALEM (AP) — American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction in the United States, Israel’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday. </p><p><br /></p><p>The quarter shekel silver coin, made in the year 69, is one of just two confirmed to exist. The other has been in the British Museum’s collection for a century.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the antiquities authority, the coin was one of a hoard stolen by Palestinian looters from the Elah Valley west of Jerusalem — site of the Biblical battle between David and Goliath — in 2002. It was then smuggled to Jordan and on to Britain, where it received false documentation and was sent on to the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was slated to be sold at an auction in August 2017 but was seized by Homeland Security agents before it went on the block.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-jerusalem-israel-united-states-65f722f0e77e3b64182f01ac2d62d6f7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-jerusalem-israel-united-states-65f722f0e77e3b64182f01ac2d62d6f7" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-jerusalem-israel-united-states-65f722f0e77e3b64182f01ac2d62d6f7</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62875673" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62875673" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62875673</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in