News Summary

• Early Persian silver coin smuggled from Israel to Big Apple also regained after being offered for sale.
• One of the recovered coins is a bronze prutah, the lowest known denomination of Judean currency.
• It shows nothing less than the seven-branched menorah that stood in the Second Temple in Jerusalem on one side and the Temple's showbread table on the flip side.
• The second coin wouldn't have been allowed out of the country either.
• It was a lovely early silver tetradrachm from the Persian period, minted in Ascalon over 2,500 years ago.