1,100 Years Old Treasure Of 24 Carat Islamic Gold Coins Unearthed In Israel

A teenagers volunteering at an excavation unearthed a vessel of 425 complete Islamic 24 carat gold coins dating to the Abbasid period around 1,100 year ago, was a extremely rare find Israel Antiquities Authorities archaeologists said in a joint statement. The vessel also included hundreds of smaller clippings from gold coins that would have served as smaller denominations.

"The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it and even secured it with a nail so that it would not move, We can guess only what happened to him from re-collecting this treasure".

The trove was found in housed workshops at the time the treasure was hidden and the identity of the owner is still a mystery. A coin expert with antiquities authority said an initial analysis indicates the coins date from the last 9th century, considered the golden age of the Abbasid Caliphate that controlled most of the near East and North Africa. The discovery was among the largest caches of ancient coins found in Israel, Earlier, in 2015, amateur divers found nearly 2,000 gold coins off the coast of the ancient port city of Caesarea dating to the Fatimid period in the 10th and 11th centuries. The study of the hoard is going to reveal us more about a period of which we still know very little said the Kool. 
 

Source: Saudi Expatriate

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