Israel: Found 6kg of ancient gold coins in the sea

Amateur divers have found more than 2,000 ancient gold coins weighing up to 6kg dating back thousands of years off the coast of the port city of Caesarea, Israel.

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These gold coins may drift ashore due to the recent storm and it provides valuable archaeological evidence from the Fatimid period, around the 10th-11th century, Kobi Sharvit, director of the archaeological unit Israeli customs said.

Gold coins that divers find on the sea floor

The divers initially thought they discovered toy coins but then they brought these gold coins to the archaeologists for assessment.

Archaeologists later used metal detectors and discovered large amounts of gold coins around the area where divers found the first coins. Divers have delivered all the coins found to the research agency.

Robert Kool, Israeli archaeological expert, said that coins were found in excellent conditions.'They are completely clean and very new despite being in the sea for more than a millennium , ' Kool said.

Sharvit said that these gold coins could come from a ship carrying taxes to Egypt or from a merchant ship along the Mediterranean coast.

The discovery of these gold coins can help supplement 'our understanding of the entire archaeological context and answer many questions that we have not answered for a long time , ' Sharvit added. .