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Hidden Treasure in the Holy Land

Tourist finds cache of gold coins

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  • Dec. 22: An Israeli archaeologist displays a 7th century Byzantine-period coin discovered at an excavation site outside the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli archaeologists say they unearthed more than 250 gold coins from the seventh century in excavations on the edge of Jerusalem's walled Old City. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the Byzantine-period hoard was discovered among the ruins of a building where a 2,000-year-old gold earring from the Roman era was dug up last month.
  • Dec. 22: A man holds some of the 7th-century Byzantine coins dug out of a wall near the Old City of Jerusalem.
  • Dec. 22: British archaeological volunteer Nadine Ross holds some of the Byzantine coins she discovered in Jerusalem.
  • Dec. 22: Britain's Nadine Ross shows off some of the Byzantine coins she found cached in a wall outside the Old City of Jerusalem.

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