Show Higi historians sti stirred r r edir y fi find nd of abie Ancient fit Coins coins that shed new light ight on oil till an fib period of jewish history hive hav beon in a private collo collection cilk in Jc jerusalem tho the coins are of tile the fifth century D n C which Is im years older than ally coln heretofore known tho the money cnown to have been reg iii arly used in anclena anc leni palestine estine wit was S foreign anoney chiefly cli lelly coins of 11 na ali eions which in turn dominated tile I 1 country it if ling liaa I 1 been eel sup posed that tile jews were not nl lowed to issue their own coinage until n Syri nii icing granto tl that alint ab alb erly about 10 U B 0 the discovery shows that hint after tho th swept tlc ahe babylonians froni from power anti ciul allied ih tho exiled called lews jews to return to jerusa jerusalem lem tile lie persian icing ular granted autonomy the jerusalem coins ire are sald to match it 11 emall silver coln coin which for tile last years lias has been in III tho museum jt it bears an ad inscription of setters which it Is said have been wrongly interpreted by scholars and therefore thero fore tile 0 of r lie coln coin was not completely understood iio reads the itter s as Yoh Yel iid lud whuell ans at one 1 ehno tile Off lelal name of tho the province of judea judan uhe the coins bear the engraving of nn owl under which appear tile tho three ketterl letter in III tho the old phoenician hebrew script |