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World News is reporting that gold coins of Emperor Valens were found in an excavations in the west part of St. Catherine’s monastery in Sinai. According to the news report,
The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced an interesting discovery. Gold coins forged by Roman Emperor Vales were unearthed at the astonishment of archaeologists; these findings represent the first of this kind in the Land of the Pyramids.
The two coins were found during excavations in the west part of St. Catherine’s monastery in Sinai. The image represented on the front side of the coins is very similar to that of Valens’ and specialists agreed that he is indeed.
Read the news report by clicking here.
Credit: Valens’ Gold Coins Image courtesy of World News
Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
Tags: Ancient Coins, Archaeology, Egypt, Numismatic
Dr. Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament 
>Dr. Mariottini,Many years ago I took a class that talked about Old Testement history. What book(s) do you use? Are there any “Survey of the Old Testement” that you would recommend that I study?Richard C. Witt, Jr.crgmohi@aol.com
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>”Gold coins forged by Roman Emperor Vales”This phrase, which you quoted, seems very odd. First, the emperor’s name is spelled wrong; from later in the text it is clear that this is an error for Valens. And then why would an emperor forge coins when he has the right to mint them not as forgeries? Indeed surely if he was responsible for their production they are by definition not forgeries, and so not forged but minted.
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>Peter,You are right. The original article was poorly written and it included a few mistakes. Unfortunately, when you link with an article that has an interesting piece of information, you cannot correct the errors the article makes.Claude Mariottini
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>Richard,Thank you for visiting my blog. I will be sending you an email with my recommendations.Claude Mariottini
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