The collection of 425 complete gold coins, most of them related to the Abbasid period about 1,100 years ago, is an "extremely rare" find, said Israel Antiquities Archaeologists Liat Nadav-Ziv and Elie Haddad in a joint statement.
- When I chopped into the ground, I saw something that looked like leaves. I wanted to clear them but realized they might be coins. At first I found about three of them and when I picked them up I saw even more below. Says 18-year-old Oz Cohen, one of the volunteers who found the treasure.
A first analysis indicates that the coins are from the end of the 10th century.