Silver coins made during the Late Bronze Age and used for payment were discovered at Tel Shiloh, north of Yerushalayim, and at Tel Gezer, on the western slope of the Judean Hills, a new study revealed on Sunday.
The coins were made in Anatolia, which today constitutes part of Turkey, and were apparently used as early as 17 century BCE. Another batch coins came from Tell el-Ajjul, presently located in the Gaza Strip; these were produced a century later, during the early Late Bronze Age, according to the new study conducted by the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of Yerushalayim.
“The transition to an economical method based on silver coins, which do not deteriorate and have a reduced volume and weight, presents many advantages and new possibilities which will certainly contribute to the urban and economic development of the entire region,” said Dr. Tzilla Eshel, of the University of Haifa, who led the study.
The study also showed that silver coins continued to be used frequently, evidence of long and stable trade relations in Anatolia, something researchers were unaware of until now.
The use of coins as a means of payment was known in Mesopotamia as early as the third millennium BCE. However, in the region of the southern Levant, known in the Torah as the Land of Canaan, this use was thought to be common only in the Iron Age, from the 12th century BCE. The silver trade between Hazor and Mari, an ancient Semitic city-state in present-day Syria, is mentioned in financial records found in Hazor and dated back to the Middle Bronze Age.
Silver coins have an unpolished shape, which makes it clear that they were not made as jewelry or ornamental items. The fact that they were commonly found together, wrapped in cloth, and kept in pottery proves that they were used as a form of payment. i24 News
“Why does the government keep printing more and more money when we’ve got all these silver coins that haven’t been used in years?” said one dismayed and despondent Israeli upon hearing this latest piece of news.
They didn’t have cryptocurrency back then?!
How interesting! For centuries, the “accepted wisdom” in archaeological circles was that coinage used for commerce was unknown in the area at the time of Avraham Avinu and even at the time of Mattan Torah, and they condescendingly pointed to the embarrasing anachronism of the “over lasocher” at the purchase of the Me’aras Hamachpeila and the laws of pidyon. SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!! The Torah is the truth and you are like the blind in a cellar at midnight.
Correct. Any we should ask Matzav to correct the statement and write: “this use was thought by idiotic archeologists to be common only in the Iron Age, in order to contradict the Torah.”
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Well duh! prior to 1964 silver coins was used as currency in most of the world go back a little more and 100% of the world used silver as currency
The elite and wealthy are frantic that all the money in 209 countries is being changed to gold-backed currency. The Deep State Cabal are panicking and trying to stop it as they won’t be able to print their own money anymore. (How do you think they had so much money to bribe doctors, nurses, airlines, politicians, etc.?) (Obama send them a printing machine to China.)