Coins

'Grandpa, look what we found': Huckabee family uncovers ancient coins in West Bank caves

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his family uncovered ancient coins and jar fragments dating to the Bar-Kochba Revolt during a tour near Na’ale in the Mateh Binyamin region.

|ByJAMES GENN
US ambassador Mike Huckabee's family after finding coins in a Mateh Binyamin Regional Council cave, January 5, 2026.
Coins.

The Jewish immigrant who shaped America’s most famous coin - opinion

Discover Victor Brenner, the Jewish artist who designed the Lincoln penny and left a hidden mark on Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital.

|ByBARBARA SOFER
Ancient Celtic gold coins found in Switzerland.

Archaeologists find Switzerland’s oldest gold coins dating back 2,200 years

Two rare Celtic gold coins dating to the 3rd Century BCE were uncovered near Arisdorf, marking the oldest gold coins ever found in Switzerland, shedding light on ancient trade and ritual practices.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A jug holding a vast number of Roman coins was found during an excavation at a French village.

Ancient piggy bank: Excavation in France reveals 40,000 Roman coins from 1,700 years ago

The experts who analysed the coins believe, based on the dates on the coins, that the discovery unburied a treasure which was buried between A.D. 280 and 310.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Adam Staples and friends unearthed a medieval coin hoard worth $5.6 million

The hoard includes coins depicting both William the Conqueror and Harold II, offering insight into the turbulent period following the Norman Conquest of England.

DECEMBER 24, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A coin with the face of Nero.

Greece returns Lydian coin hoard to Turkey under UNESCO agreement

The entire collection of coins is part of a coin "treasure" that was hidden in the late 5th or early 4th century BCE in Asia Minor.

DECEMBER 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Electrum trite, Alyattes II, Lydia, 610-560 BC.

A 5th-century Anglo-Saxon artisan created a fake Roman gold coin with Latin typos

"The pendant demonstrates a desire to plug into this vanished age," noted numismatist Adrian Marsden.

DECEMBER 5, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Roman gold coins.