Monitoring Desk: 2,000-year-old rear coin discovered in the Judean Desert, reports TPS News Agency on Thursday.
According to PTS, the silver half-shekel coin depicts three pomegranates while the other side features a chalice. The words “Holy Jerusalem” were also inscribed. The IAA dated the coin to 66 or 67 CE.
Yaniv David Levy, a numismatic scholar at the IAA, explained that the half-shekel was a special tax Jews paid for the 
upkeep of the Temple and procuring animals for sacrifices. “Coins from the first year of the revolt, such as this coin that was discovered in the Judean Desert, are rare,” said Levy.
