Show historians stirred by find of ancient coins coil s that she I 1 new I 1 on an obscure period of jewish history have hane been d scoN ho red in a private collection in jerusalem the coins are of tl e fifth century B C wh mh ch Is beirs ears aidel than any je ish nish coins heretofore known I 1 ahe he money known to have been reg used in anc ent palestine mas fore agn money chiefly coina coins of na eions wh ch in t irn dominated the hebrew country it has been sup posed that the jews jems were not al at levied loved to issue their own col naga until a byrlin king granted that lib erty about B C I 1 he dis discovery coNery shows that after tha persians swept afe babylonians Bablon lans from power ird allowed the exiled jews to return to jen jeri salem the persian king granted au all onomy one my the jerusalem co ns Ds are said tj ta match a small s iver co n which tor for tie tl e last yeat s las I 1 as been in the british museum jt it heirs beirs an tion of tl tiree ree adamid letters which it is said albans have haw been wrongly interpreted bv by scholars and tl the significance of the coin was mas not completely understood lie ile reads the let letter terr as ehud which was mas at one time tl e official name of the province of judea the coins bear the en graving gran ing of an owl under wa alich ich ap pear the three letters in the old phoenician hebrew script and destructive idle curiosity Is probably the busi est thins thin in the world |