“Le’Geulat Tzion”: Rare Coin Minted One Year Before The Churban Discovered Near Har Habayis

“Le’Geulat Tzion”: Rare Coin Minted One Year Before The Churban Discovered Near Har Habayis

Archaeologists in Yerushalayim have uncovered a rare bronze coin minted by Jews in the final year before the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed. The discovery, announced Thursday by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), was made last week near the southwestern corner of Har Habayis, in an archaeological garden adjacent to the site where the Beis Hamikdash once stood. The coin—well-preserved despite the passage of two millennia—was struck during the …