Palestine loses claim to the holy land

[village_person]

Hiker finds rare gold coin in Israel

Jerusalem (CNN)The shiny object was just sitting there in the grass, waiting to be found. It was a 2,000-year-old gold coin with the face of a Roman emperor, so rare that only one other such coin is known to exist.

Laurie Rimon discovered the gold coin while hiking in eastern Galilee recently, not far from the biblical site where it's written that Jesus walked on water and performed the miracle of the multiplication of the fish and bread. Rimon, from a kibbutz in northern Israel, turned it over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. It was her own little miracle.

"It was not easy parting with the coin," she said. "After all, it is not every day one discovers such an amazing object, but I hope I will see it displayed in a museum in the near future."

"This coin is rare on a global level," said Dr. Danny Syon, a coin expert with the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The coin shows the face of Emperor Augustus, Caesar's heir and the founder of the Roman Empire. Augustus ruled from 27 BC to AD 14, during the time of Jesus. In AD 107, Emperor Trajan minted a series of coins to honor the Roman emperors who came before him, according to Donald Ariel, head curator of the coin department at the Israel Antiquities Authority. This gold coin was created as a tribute to the reign of Augustus. It refers to him as "Divus Augustus," or Augustus the Divine, who Ariel says was considered a deity after his death.

The hiker's discovery has created a mystery: What was such a valuable coin doing around the Sea of Galilee?

"It's the only coin we know for the site in which it was found in Eastern Galilee. Eastern Galilee is a place where we don't know very much about this time period," Ariel said.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/14/middleeast/israel-gold-coin-found/index.html

For years we have been told that the Palestinians had a link to that area of the world. Along comes a coin which casts doubt on the Palestinians claims. If their claims were true the coin should have been stamped with 'issued by the Palestine mint'. Those words did not appear on the coin.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@village_person wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

For years we have been told that the Palestinians had a link to that area of the world. Along comes a coin which casts doubt on the Palestinians claims. If their claims were true the coin should have been stamped with 'issued by the Palestine mint'. Those words did not appear on the coin.

Is this part of the original article or your own words of wisdom, based on your knowledge of the coinage in circulation in that area during the reign of Augustus??

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Are you suggesting that Augustus was ruler of Rome and Palestine. I'm sure the Palestinians, based on your inference, will now lay claim to Italy. Mahmoud Abbas please phone your office.

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The Gospel of Luke tells us that Caesar Augustus ordered acensus taken of the entire Roman world, possibly for tax purposes. Palestine was part of that world,

http://christianity.about.com/od/newtestamentpeople/a/JZ-Caesar-Augustus.htm

During the first century, Rome had dominion over Israel.  In 63 BCE, after much turmoil and civil war within Israel, the Romans invaded and conquered Jerusalem.[31]  In order to keep control over the Galilean and Judean peoples, Julius Caesar and the Senate installed Herod as king.  It would take Herod three years to finally gain all control over the still hostile Jews, but he would in due course keep a firm rule over the whole region.  He eventually became one of Augustus’ favorite military leaders, and was admired by the new emperor because of his immense development program.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thepangeablog/articles/unpublished-papers/behind-lukes-gospel-the-roman...

Didn't the OP say that the coin had the image of Augustus on it?

[the_great_she_elephant]

On rereading the OP I notice that the coin was minted by the Empeoror Trajan inin 107 AD in honour of Augustus. so i thought this might help you.

He (Nerva) was succeeded, in 3860 (100), by Trajan, who was also a very great friend to the Jews; and he gave them, at the time of Rabbi Joshua Ben Chananiah, the permission to rebuild the temple, of which, however, they neither could nor would make any use,  

In his (Trajan's) reign there arose in the city of Bither the celebrated Bar Kocheba, i.e. Son of the Star (Num. 24:17), but later called Bar Kusiba, i.e. son of falsehood. He alleged himself to be the regent (messiah?) of the Jews, and rebelled against the Romans, and caused a great slaughter among them, but more especially among the Roman and Greek inhabitants of the island of Cyprus.

Trajan sent his sister’s son, Hadrian, as general to Palestine, to fight against Bar Kocheba; he contended against him for several years, but was not able to defeat him. Trajan reigned eighteen years.

I can't believe you really didn't know Palestine was part of the Roman Empire and ruled, in turn,  by both Augustus and Trajan.

Eaually mind-boggling is your statement  If their claims were true the coin should have been stamped with 'issued by the Palestine mint'. Those words did not appear on the coin. You were joking, weren't you?

 Palestine didn't issue coins. According to Wikipedia Roman mints were spread widely across the Empire, but regardless of where it was minted the coin ws a Roman coin, issued by the Roman Emperor for use in the Roman Empire.