“My great-grandfather unearthed a collection of ancient coins in his village in the Lebanon mountains in the 1950s,” Bishara said. “By now there are so many varying stories. He was digging for a garden, he found it in a cave, he was digging the foundation for a house, so who knows how it came about.”
But one fact remains: Bishara’s great-grandfather, Assad, found a cache of ancient coins in his village, Karm El Mohr…
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