Israeli archaeologists discover rare Second Temple coin ANI Thursday 20th March, 2008
Washington, March 20 : A rare silver coin that the Jews used to pay the half-shekel head tax to the Temple has been discovered in what was the main drainage channel of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period - a phase in Jewish history that extends from the return of the first of the exiles in 539 BCE following the declaration of Cyrus, or with the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 516 BCE, until the Temple's destruction in 70 CE.
