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Apr. 1, 2021 11:54 AM
Gold coins cast a spell. The pile of coins found in a wall in Caesarea and now displayed in a glass case at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem begs questions. Who hid it? Why? What was he afraid of?
Definitely, the hider assumed he could return to retrieve the treasure. He or she surely didn’t mean to abandon it for 1,000 years. What went wrong?
Archaeologists suspect the coins, placed in a bronze vessel stoppered with a bit of pottery, were hidden in the year 1101, as the Crusaders approached Caesarea.