The treasure was discovered on August 18 by teenagers who had volunteered during excavations organized in the center ofIsrael, where a new district is to emerge, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday, August 24.
“The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago probably intended to recover it. She even secured the container with a nail so it wouldn’t move, “ said excavation manager Liat Nadav-Ziv.
425 pure gold coins
Robert Kool, a numismatic expert at the Antiquities Authority, said those 425 24-karat pure gold coins, which date from the period of the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century, were a considerable sum at the time.
“For example, with such a sum, one could have bought a luxurious house in one of the best districts of Futsal, the gigantic and rich capital of Egypt at that time”.
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