According to the Associated Press, New York on one of the auction was sold to a Jewish shekel, released back in '66 BC. The buyer wished to remain anonymous.
Minting of these coins was carried out during the First Jewish War. To have survived, only two such coins. On one side painted ritual bowl, on the other - a pomegranate tree. One coin is exhibited in the Museum of Israel, but the coin has a drilled hole, so that the coin is sold only one kind without any damage.
The auction house that sold the coin, said that the price of 1.1 million. dollars is the highest value in the history of the sale of coins. Sold the silver shekel was previously part of the collection of Sean, which included more than 2 thousand Jewish coins. Today the Museum of Israel wants to get most of the collection with the Jews living in the United States.
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