1,400-Year-Old Coins Belonging to Persecuted Christians Have Been Found Near Jerusalem

Amanda Casanova : Mar 21, 2017
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Archaeologists believe that Christians left the stash as they were fleeing from Persians during the Sassanid Persian invasion in 614 AD. That was the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.

(Israel)—[Christian Headlines] A collection of ancient bronze coins that are thought to have belonged to Christians have been discovered on the highway to Jerusalem in an archaeological dig. (Photo: Yoli Shwartz/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

The coins are from the late Byzantine era of the seventh century AD ... [and] have the image of the emperors under which they were made.

"The hoard was found amongst large stones that had collapsed alongside the building," said the director of the excavation, Annette Landes-Nagar. "It seems that during a time of danger the owner of the hoard placed the coins in a cloth purse that he concealed inside a hidden niche in the wall. He probably hoped to go back and collect it."

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