This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batchewith, Thaddeus, McCarter, American greatness,

and the dusty one is here. The Chappau, the bag of tricks, the bullwhip, Indiana online.

And this time, there's money involved, 2,000-year-old money. Thaddeus?

Yes, Indiana. Apparently, there's been found a 2,000-year-old checker, which unfortunately

has not accrued compound interest over the years. What can you tell us?

You're so right, but it had the value, but as it is, it's extremely valuable. As we've discussed,

there are many caves in the south and the negative area, desert area, and people escaping

from the destruction of Jerusalem, they hid out there, and in different eras, these caves

were used, and one of the things that was found there, whether that's e-scrolls. But we know

that our marauders would come and steal a lot of the items from the caves. So Israel mapped out

over 800 caves now, and are trying to preamp that, the people stealing stuff there by going in

and in one of them, they found for the first time in the caves, a 2,000-year-old coin from the

first year of the revolt against the Romans in Jerusalem. And it says on the inscription,

Holy Jerusalem, in ancient Hebrew scripts, we learn a lot now about the evolution of the Hebrew

script over the years, but also it says, half-checo on it. And half-checo was the nomination used

in the temple, what that people had to bring as their contribution. So it shows that even though

the temple was being destroyed, that they wanted to perpetuate the customs and the traditions.

And there's three pomegranates on one side, which is something that was used in subsequent

points in modern Israel, and a goblet with the letter Oleh, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet,

and the significance of this is really great because they used Hebrew script rather than a

Greek script, which was commonly used during that period on these kind of points, and that they

were manufacturing themselves because the myths, obviously, were no longer in use because of the

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