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Youths discover trove of 1,000-year-old gold coins in Israel
A hoard of 1,000-year-old gold coins has been unearthed in Israel
The trove was found by teenagers volunteering at an excavation site in central Israel
New Delhi: Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years.
The treasure was discovered on August 18, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday. It was found by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where a new neighbourhood is planned to be built.
"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.
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. "It was amazing," said Oz Cohen, one of the volunteers who found the treasure
"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." Dating back to the ninth century Abbasid Caliphate period, the 425 24-carat pure gold coins would have been a significant amount of money at the time, said Robert Kool, a coin expert at the Antiquities Authority.
"For example, with such a sum, a person could buy a luxurious house in one of the best neighbourhoods in Fustat, the enormous wealthy capital of Egypt in those days," Kool said.
