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Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of amber and ash grey coins by the remains of a century - old temple in Israel , near the Sea of Galilee .
The cache of 364 coin , which was unearthed at the archaeologic site of Huqoq ( also spelled Yaquq ) , date stamp to the 15th century .
This coin hoard was deposited during the 15th century and contains hundreds of Venetian and Mamluk coins.
The early of the Venetian coins go steady to the clock time that Francesco Dandolo was doge ( drawing card of Venice ) , between 1329 and 1339 , while the later Venetian coins date to the sovereignty of Francesco Foscari , from 1423 to 1457 , Kool wrote . Many of the Venetian coins have image limn St. Mark the Evangelist , who is traditionally ascribed as the author of the Gospel of Mark , as well as Latin inscriptions that can be translate as " It is to You , Christ , that this Duchy is entrusted which You govern , " Kool write .
During medieval times in the eastern Mediterranean , Venetian coins were wide used as an exportation currency . " By the end of the fourteenth one C [ Venetian ] ducats were the only European gold currentness accept in Mamluk Egypt and Syria , " Kool pen in the study .
The coin hoard when it was first discovered . Why it was deposited near the medieval synagogue is a mystery .
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One of the Au coins get at the archaeaological site of Huqoq .
Most of the Mamluk coins in the hoard were coin during the reign of Sultan al - Ashraf Barsbay , from 1422 to 1438 , Kool wrote . There are also a few coins from other locations in Southern Europe , such as a silver coin minted during the sovereignty of James I , who was king of Sicily from 1285 to 1295 , and even a coin from Serbia .
The " deposition of the hoard occurred sometime during or after 1438 - 1457 , " a date reach that is ground on analysis of the coins and other archeological remains , Kool drop a line in the paper . Who deposited it , where they drive the money from , and why it was leave at the synagogue are all strange .
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That said , there are many possibilities . It could have been money donated for fixing to the temple , or perhaps the cache was deposited by a jaunt merchant who leave it there for keeping and never do back , Kool wrote . Yet another possibility is that the coins were left by pilgrims travel to the grave of Habakkuk , a prophesier observe in the Hebrew Bible who lived in the seventh century B.C.This grave is place near Huqoq .
The building stopped being used as a tabernacle in the mid-15th 100 , Kool noted . After that , the building shine into ruin .
The stash was found in the summer of 2018 , but its discovery was not declare publically at the time because of concerns about robbery , Jodi Magness , a prof of religious field at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who led the team that made the discovery but was n’t an author of the new written report , severalise Live Science via electronic mail .
