21 ancient coins from different periods were found in the possession of a suspect. The coins were allegedly illegally excavated from antiquities sites in the Jerusalem area.
One of the coins is a coin of the last Hasmonean king, Matthias Antigonus. On the obverse of the coin appears a ray of abundance, surrounded by an inscription in ancient Hebrew: "Matthias Cohen grew up a member of the... "(37-40 BCE) The coin is of medium denomination, and is rarer than the large denomination, which has a pair of rays of abundance instead of one.