Rare 2000 years old coins on display in Israel


	Rare 2000 years old coins on display in Israel

infidel70

11-15-2009 2:52 PM

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11-15-2009 3:22 PM

lollipop10

Thank you Infidel, very interesting. You always have such good clips.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f1df4bd-0a54-4b2d-9efa-ca06b11f57e0/C643B7C8-334F-4BDE-8290-C867C0A0D82D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins_8" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins_8" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins_8"><P>JERUSALEM – <SPAN id="lw_1257984698_0" class="yshortcuts">Israel</SPAN> displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of <SPAN id="lw_1257984698_1" class="yshortcuts">rare coins</SPAN> charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the <SPAN id="lw_1257984698_2" class="yshortcuts">Jewish Temple</SPAN> nearly 2,000 years ago.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins_8"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/0A5EBA89-3B27-49EE-A803-BE8CB4BE4AC8" alt="A bronze coin with a palm tree dated by Israeli archaeologists to 69 AD, part of" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins_8">About 70 coins were found in an excavation at the foot of a key Jerusalem holy site. 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