Community Chat

[Kachina624]

Two teens, volunteering at an archilogical site in Israel, dug up an 1100 year old clay jar containing 425 24k gold coins.  The coins weigh a total of 845 grams.  What a way to spend your vacation but I doubt they'll receive any of it.  Must have been a thrill though.

[nana59]

i say "finders keepers...losers weepers..."

[chickenbutt]

Oh man, that's where I left all my gold coins.   

[Pezzie]

How  cool and exciting for the kids.  Talik about bragging rights!

[Cakers3]

How exciting for them.  They will not benefit but it's still a wicked awesome find.

[Goldengate8361]

I bet it made a great post on Instagram for them!

[FancyPhillyshopper]

This is a great and fascinating story about how archaeology still holds so many mysteries from the past. It is neat to know someone had saved up all that ancient money.  This discovery also shows that gold is forever!

[goldensrbest]

What would had been the value of that back then?

[Cakers3]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

What would had been the value of that back then?

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@goldensrbest   All I saw was that it was enough to buy an expensive house in an exclusive area.  I don't know what real estate went for back then.  LOL

24kt gold and the coins in total weight just under 2 lbs, so I can imagine what the value would be today.

What an interesting story; who placed the coins and for what reason and why did they not come back for them.

[depglass]

Would some math whiz figure out what that comes to in today's dollars?  I guess it isn't that difficult 846 grams times 2,000 per gram?  What am I doing wrong?