Written by Oren Liebermann Jack Guy, CNNTwo Israeli teenagers on summer break unearthed a trove of hundreds of gold coins that date from 1,100 years ago. "When I looked again I saw these were gold coins. The collection of gold coins contains full gold dinars, but also smaller cuttings of gold coins -- used as small change, said Kool. In 2016, a hiker found a 2,000-year-old gold coin carrying the face of a Roman emperor in eastern Galilee. And in 2015, divers found a trove of nearly 2,000 gold coins in the ancient Mediterranean harbor of Caesarea, which had languished at the bottom of the sea for about 1,000 years.

Source: CNN August 24, 2020 15:56 UTC