Friday, January 24, 2020

A gift for President Putin

NUMISMATIC DIPLOMACY: Putin Receives 2,000-Year-Old Coin Uncovered in Jerusalem (TPS / Tazpit News Agency via the Jewish Press).
Putin is in Israel together with 45 global leaders and royals to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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The coin is an original, inscribed with the ancient Hebrew words “Liberty of Zion.” On the other side of the coin are the words “year two” and refer to the second year of the Great Revolt during the years 66–73 CE.
Another "year two" coin from the Great Revolt (or possibly even the same one) was in the news a few years ago.

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