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Israeli hiker discovers nearly 2,000-year-old gold coin
The Israel Antiquities Authority announced a woman hiking in Galilee stumbled upon a nearly 2,000-year-old gold coin from the Roman Empire. The organization said Laurie Rimon, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Blum in northern Israel, was with a group of hikers in Galilee when she noticed a shiny object in the grass near an archaeological site. Rimon picked up the object and discovered it was a very old-looking gold coin. The hiker turned her find over to the Antiquities Authority, which said the coin bears in the image of Emperor Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, and was part of a series minted by Emperor ... (full story)