Egypt
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This is a few days old but I am still playing catch-up. There's a photo of the coin on the above page.
- Ptolemaic Gold Coin Found In Israel
CNN (Les Neuhaus) Many thanks to Rhio for the link. With a photo of, as he says, the very beautiful coin. A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said...
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- Isle Of Man Issues New Egypt-themed Coins
IOM Today You will need to scroll down the page beyond the Paddington Bear story to get to the piece on the Egyptian themed coins. Following the success of the world's first Pyramid coin launched in December last year, three more Tutankhamun coins...
- Triangular Coin To Celebrate Uk Visit Of Tutankhamun
Independent.ie (Kim Pilling) The world's first triangular coin will be unveiled today to mark the return of Tutankhamun's treasures to London. The coin, representing a pyramid, is part of a series which depicts the artefacts unearthed in the...
- Ptolemaic Coin
A gold coin weighing one ounce and minted in Ptolemaic Egypt has recently been found in Israel at Tel Kedesh near the Lebanon boarder. This is only the second Egyptian gold coin found in Israel and the biggest. The image on the coin may represent...
Egypt
Umayyad coin discovered near Wadi el-Natrun
drhawass.com
This is a few days old but I am still playing catch-up. There's a photo of the coin on the above page.
Cultural Minister, Farouk Hosni, announced that a gold Umayyad coin was unearthed last Thursday during an excavation at Deir Yehnes el-Koseir (Monastery of St. John the Little), an area in Wadi el-Natrun. The excavation is a joint venture between Yale University in the USA and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA, explained that the coin is very well preserved and both sides are decorated with kufi inscriptions. The first side of the coin bears the name of Allah and the second side is inscribed: “in the name of God the Merciful.” The edge of the coin is decorated with the year when it was minted.
The coin can be dated to the year 103 of Higra (721 AD) during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph, Yazid Ibn Abdel Malek Ibn Marawan.
- Ptolemaic Gold Coin Found In Israel
CNN (Les Neuhaus) Many thanks to Rhio for the link. With a photo of, as he says, the very beautiful coin. A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said...
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- Isle Of Man Issues New Egypt-themed Coins
IOM Today You will need to scroll down the page beyond the Paddington Bear story to get to the piece on the Egyptian themed coins. Following the success of the world's first Pyramid coin launched in December last year, three more Tutankhamun coins...
- Triangular Coin To Celebrate Uk Visit Of Tutankhamun
Independent.ie (Kim Pilling) The world's first triangular coin will be unveiled today to mark the return of Tutankhamun's treasures to London. The coin, representing a pyramid, is part of a series which depicts the artefacts unearthed in the...
- Ptolemaic Coin
A gold coin weighing one ounce and minted in Ptolemaic Egypt has recently been found in Israel at Tel Kedesh near the Lebanon boarder. This is only the second Egyptian gold coin found in Israel and the biggest. The image on the coin may represent...