Israeli youths have unearthed nearly 425 gold coins, that had been stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years.??
Robert Kool, a coin expert at the Antiquities Authority told Reuters, that coins found accidentally by the youth dated back to the ninth century Abbasid Caliphate period.?
According to Kool the 24-carat pure gold coins would have been a significant amount of money at the time.?
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The treasure was discovered on August 18 by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where a new neighbourhood is planned to be built, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday.
¡°The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it and even secured the vessel with a nail so that it would not move. We can only guess what prevented him from returning to collect this treasure,¡± said excavation director Liat Nadav-Ziv.
¡°It was amazing,¡± said Oz Cohen, one of the volunteers who found the treasure.
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¡°I dug in the ground and when I excavated the soil, saw what looked like very thin leaves. When I looked again I saw these were gold coins. It was really exciting to find such a special and ancient treasure.¡±
The area it was found in housed workshops at the time the treasure was hidden, and the identity of the owner is still a mystery.? ??