BAR: Coins from the Era of Biblical Joseph Identified in Egypt

Source: http://www.bib-arch.org/news/dailynews.asp# 10/6/2009 11:02 PM
Date: September 28, 2009

B.A.R. Magazine News:
Coins from the Era of Biblical Joseph Identified in Egypt
September 28, 2009

Egyptian coins minted from the era of Biblical Joseph have been discovered in boxes stashed away for years in Egypt’s National Museum. Researches had begun to sort through the thousands of small artifacts in the museum’s vaults when they realized that small objects previously believed to be charms and ornaments are in fact coins. One of the coins is said to bear the image of Joseph as the minister of the treasury in the Pharaoh’s court.

This identification of these coins provides decisive evidence that ancient Egyptians were in fact familiar with a monetary system—an assertion that some historians have refuted. Some of the coins bear holes, which had lead the original discoverers of the objects to conclude that they were ornaments.

MEMRI reports on the re-discovery of Egyptian coins in Egypt’s National Museum


Dr. Thabet's Team Sep 28, 2009 Discovered Coins in Egypt Bearing Name And Image Of Biblical Joseph:
Dr. Thabet's Team Sep 28, 2009 Reported in Cairo's Al Ahram Newspaper ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph. As so often happens these coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt in Cairo's. For Bible students who have a high view of Genesis accounts about Israel’s first prophet Joseph overcomes past skeptics who were saying coins were never actually used in trade for commerce this early. The period in which Joseph was regarded to have lived in Egypt matches the minting of the coins in the cache, researchers said.

"A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait," said the report.


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