PA historical revision: Hebrew Shekel coin from 66 CE is "ancient Palestinian coin"
Official PA daily article claims that a Judean shekel coin from the year 66 CE - the first year of the Jewish rebellion against Rome - is an "ancient Palestinian coin":
"On March 8 this year (2012), an ancient Palestinian coin will be up for auction in New York for about $1 million. It is a silver Shekel coin, minted in the first century CE, during the Jewish revolt that took place in Palestine during the period of Roman rule.
Despite the fact that the coin in what is called the 'Shoshana' collection is Palestinian, interest in it comes mainly from Jewish groups, or groups supporting Israel, which view the Palestinian heritage from an ideological-political perspective... According to auctioneer estimates... $950,000 is... [the estimated price] attached to the silver Shekel, which was minted a short time after the Jewish revolt against the Romans, which began in May of the year 66 CE. It was the prototype for all the various Shekels minted afterwards. Of this first prototype only two coins have been salvaged; one is perforated, the other, unblemished, is the one up for auction. The management of the Israel Museum has expressed interest in obtaining the coins from the Shoshana collection, and has called upon investors and businessmen to purchase as many of the coins as they are able to, and then to donate them to the museum, or to give them to the museum on long-term loan...
The announcement that the Shoshana collection - including Palestinian coins which were almost certainly stolen and smuggled overseas from Palestine - is up for auction, is an opportunity for Jewish and Western scholars to use the Jewish revolt against the Romans in Palestine for a political agenda, and to connect this local revolt with the establishment of the Israeli occupation state in the 20th century. Usually, Palestinians and Arabs show no interest in antiquities from this period, for reasons which are unintelligible and not convincing; they are influenced by the Israeli and Zionist propaganda, despite the fact that they [the antiquities] are part of the Palestinian cultural heritage."
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"On March 8 this year (2012), an ancient Palestinian coin will be up for auction in New York for about $1 million. It is a silver Shekel coin, minted in the first century CE, during the Jewish revolt that took place in Palestine during the period of Roman rule.
Despite the fact that the coin in what is called the 'Shoshana' collection is Palestinian, interest in it comes mainly from Jewish groups, or groups supporting Israel, which view the Palestinian heritage from an ideological-political perspective... According to auctioneer estimates... $950,000 is... [the estimated price] attached to the silver Shekel, which was minted a short time after the Jewish revolt against the Romans, which began in May of the year 66 CE. It was the prototype for all the various Shekels minted afterwards. Of this first prototype only two coins have been salvaged; one is perforated, the other, unblemished, is the one up for auction. The management of the Israel Museum has expressed interest in obtaining the coins from the Shoshana collection, and has called upon investors and businessmen to purchase as many of the coins as they are able to, and then to donate them to the museum, or to give them to the museum on long-term loan...
The announcement that the Shoshana collection - including Palestinian coins which were almost certainly stolen and smuggled overseas from Palestine - is up for auction, is an opportunity for Jewish and Western scholars to use the Jewish revolt against the Romans in Palestine for a political agenda, and to connect this local revolt with the establishment of the Israeli occupation state in the 20th century. Usually, Palestinians and Arabs show no interest in antiquities from this period, for reasons which are unintelligible and not convincing; they are influenced by the Israeli and Zionist propaganda, despite the fact that they [the antiquities] are part of the Palestinian cultural heritage."
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