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Ptolemaic gold coin found in Israel.


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139066
Archaeologists working in Tel Kedesh in northern Israel have uncovered an extremely rare 2,200-year-old gold coin, minted in Alexandria by King Ptolemy V.
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