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First paragraph

A sentence in the first paragraph is ungrammatical. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.65.118 (talk) 16:06, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Qumran silver coin hoard(s)

Apparently the section (3.3.2.1) needs editing. K. Lönnqvist in 2007 and 2009 publications did not claim to have access to the "complete" coin hoard. Nor were his photographs the first, having been preceded by A. Spijkerman, Marcia Sharabani and Aida Sulayman Arif.

Augustus Spijkerman and Henri Seyrig--two of the best experts alive--were invited by de Vaux to examine coins including silver coins hoarded at Qumran. These three (and others) agreed that the latest hoarded coin date was 9/8 BCE. Robert Donceel, who at the time had full access to the dig documents and on other matters differed with some interpretations of de Vaux, informed in French (Revue Biblique 99 [1992] 559-60 n.10) and in English (Methods of investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls 1994, 3-6) that there were non-Qumran coins mixed in the Amman museum. K. L. photographed some Amman silver coins and published in 2007 and 2009. Though the photos as published are not of superior quality (especially regarding a countermark, as noted by J. Ciecielag in Qumran Chronicle 15.3-4 (2007) 180), they suffice to show that, say, a disputed/intrustive coin of Trajan was quite well preserved, and would be an obvious identification to any coin expert. Ya'acov Meshorer, great numismatist, differed with de Vaux on, say, the date of destruction of Qumran, but wrote ("The Coins from Qumran," Israel Numismatic Journal 15 [2006] pages 20-21) "....This information leads us to the inevitable conclusion that the three jugs of Tyrian shekels were buried around 8 BCE, during King Herod's reign." Marcia Sharabani, who published Qumran coins at the Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem (Revue Biblique [1980] page 275): "We can only say that the _terminus post quem_ of this hoard is the year 9/8 BCE." E.-M. Laperrousaz, an archaeologist at Qumran the season the hoard coins were found, often disagreed with de Vaux, but agreed (Qoumran, 1976, page 152) about the hoard date. J.T. Milik and F. M. Cross, Qumran diggers both, disagreed with de Vaux on a separate matter of dating, but their books--Dix ans de découvertes dans le désert de Juda (1957 p.66 n.2)/Ten years of discovery in the wilderness of Judea (1959 p. 102 n. 1) and Ancient Library of Qumran (1958 p. 44 n.15), respectively--agreed with de Vaux about the hoard date. Last but not least, Bruno Callegher, "Note su Augustus Spijkerman numismatico (1920-1973)," Liber Annuus, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, 64 (2014) pages 615-647 documents some Qumran coin history contrary to some K. L. proposals. Apparently K. L. invited us to consider two options: either several experts missed several coin identifications or conspired to cover these up. Neither seems plausible. CoralapusCoralapus (talk) 15:29, 27 February 2016 (UTC)Coralapus Coralapus[reply]