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#IndianaHoenlein: And the 2500 year-old lost cut-in-half silver shekel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

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#IndianaHoenlein: And the 2500 year-old lost cut-in-half silver shekel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/extremely-rare-2500-year-old-broken-silver-coin-unearthed-near-jerusalem

1900 Jerusalem

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McCutter of American greatness. Indiana Hone Line arrives, the dusty one. It's been many weeks and we welcome him.

0:45.0

He's got a big grin on his face.

0:46.8

I wonder what he's got in his bag of tricks.

0:49.0

There goes the bullwhip, there goes the chapeau, dust all over the studio.

0:52.6

Thaddeus.

0:54.4

Indiana, what's more valuable?

0:56.3

Three coins in a fountain or one coin from the Judean hills.

1:00.4

Well, it's good to be back with you.

1:04.0

Yes, indeed, as you know, events have complicated appearances, but I wanted to discuss a really

1:10.6

extremely rare, important fine fine which answers your riddle that a 2,500 year old half of a silver coin

1:18.9

discovered at an excavation site in Judean Hills where a major highway is being expanded.

1:25.2

And as you know in Israel, whenever you do digs for housing to build foundations or roads,

1:32.4

you have to bring the archaeology authorities in to make sure

1:36.6

that you're not destroying anything underground because almost everywhere in Israel you can

1:40.8

find things from previous centuries and even more than a thousand years ago.

1:46.7

In this case, from the six and fifth centuries, B.C.

1:50.1

the times of King Hezakaya and Manassa, Amno and Josiah, where in Jerusalem was the center of the kingdom of Judah, and they found a coin which had previously been seen in Turkey and Cyprus increase but now introduced into the kingdom of Judah a silver coin which was cut into because it was used as a weight.

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