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Quavinir t1_iu1mte7 wrote

Reply to comment by phil_style in Ancient City of Magdala Unearthed Near Tiberias, Israel by GullyShotta

I took some time to look it up, and it seems that there are some coins found at the sight that were minted LATER (Have no clue why it claims they're minted in 29 AD whatsoever) that appear to be hundreds (maybe a thousand) years after the ministry of Jesus. Though it is identified as Jesus Christ with inscriptions in Greek naming the figure specifically.

Bizarrely enough, the only mention of this I could find was on a stock photo-site, that claims that the image and caption came from Reuters, though I have yet to find a reuters story on the matter. https://www.alamy.com/a-rare-thousand-year-old-jesus-coin-on-display-at-the-hebrew-university-of-jerusalem-july-7-the-coins-which-were-discovered-during-an-archaeological-dig-near-the-sea-of-galilee-bears-the-likeness-of-jesus-and-has-greek-inscriptions-praising-him-the-coins-were-unearthed-in-october-in-archaeological-excavations-at-the-site-of-ancient-tiberias-in-northern-israel-but-only-during-a-cleaning-of-the-find-last-month-did-archaeologists-discover-the-image-of-jesus-on-58-of-the-82-coins-some-coins-also-bore-greek-inscriptions-such-as-jesus-the-messiah-the-king-of-kings-and-jesus-the-messiah-image382017674.html

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StrategicBean t1_iu1vil1 wrote

Found info! (Full links for verification at bottom)

>Coin of Jesus found in Ancient Tiberias Excavation

>29 Nov 2004

>A rare Jesus coin was found by volunteers digging at the site of Ancient Tiberias.

>(Communicated by Prof. Yizhar Hirschfeld, director of the archeological excavation)

>An unusual and important find was discovered at the archaeological excavation of Ancient Tiberias being carried out at a site on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.

>To their great surprise, a group of young people who were participating in the dig discovered a rare coin. On the front of the coin can be seen a somewhat blurred image of Jesus, while on the back, the words in Greek "Jesus the Messiah King of Kings" are engraved very clearly. This coin is one of a series of coins that were issued in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) in celebration of the First Millennium of Jesus' birth.

>It is not uncommon to find this coin in neighboring countries of Israel, such as Turkey, but this is the first time that it has ever been discovered at an Israeli archaeological site.

>Prof. Yizhar Hirschfeld, Director of this excavation, which is sponsored by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Brown University, in association with the City of Tiberias and the Israel Antiquities Authority, explains that this coin was brought to Tiberias by Christian pilgrims. Tiberias and the other sites around the Sea of Galilee were the desired destination of Christian pilgrims during the time of Muslim rule in Israel from the 7th to 11th centuries CE.

>The Ancient Tiberias Excavation receives financial support from the Avihai Fund of Jerusalem whose aim is the deepening of knowledge of history on the part of the youth participating in the dig and the residents of Tiberias and its environs.

>Mr. Zohar Oved, Mayor of Tiberias, who stands behind the efforts of this excavation, has stated that the finding of the Jesus coin on the shores of the Sea of Galilee will be a drawing point for tourists from all over the world.

Source: I think I found a pretty decent source for the info on this coin

I found a bit about it on the Jewish Virtual Library websiteJewish Virtual Library website article from November 2004 which referenced info obtained from a piece about it on the Government of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website but the link was now dead so I found the archived version of the page Internet Archive Way back Machine

Here it is, link to Internet Archive Way back Machine cached version from 2006 of Israeli MFA website article posted in 2004

EDIT: spacing & line breaks for legibility

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