[Rockhounds] Iron Age counterfeiting

[Paul]

Dirty old money: Researchers reveal Iron Age silver forgery
By Hannah Brown, Jerusalem Post, Novmeber 22, 2020
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/dirty-old-money-researchers-reveal-iron-age-silver-forgery-649864

Related open access papers by T. Eshel are:

Eshel, T., Erel, Y., Yahalom-Mack, N., Tirosh, O. and Gilboa, A.,
2019. Lead isotopes in silver reveal earliest Phoenician quest for
metals in the west Mediterranean. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 116(13), pp.6007-6012.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/13/6007.short

Eshel, T., Yahalom-Mack, N., Shalev, S., Tirosh, O., Erel, Y. and
Gilboa, A., 2018. Four iron age silver hoards from Southern
Phoenicia: From bundles to Hacksilber. Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research, 379(1), pp.197-228.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.5615/bullamerschoorie.379.0197
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.5615/bullamerschoorie.379.0197

Eshel, T., 2019. Silver and the Phoenician expansion. PNAS,
116(13), pp.5833-5835.
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/13/5833.short

Yours,

Paul H.