Largest Trove of Gold Coins Found off Israel : DNews — news.discovery.com

A group of amateur scuba divers uncovered Israel’s largest trove of gold coins on the seabed of the ancient Mediterranean harbor of Caesarea, the country’s antiquities authority said Tuesday. The treasure, probably exposed during recent storms, wasn’t immediately recognized by the divers. “At first they thought they had spotted a toy coin from a game and it was only after they understood the coin was the real thing that they collected several coins and quickly returned to the shore in order to inform the director of the dive club about their find,” Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said in a statement.

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