Bank Leumi has bought a rare collection of ancient coins, to prevent its sale abroad. The bank is to present the collection, for which it paid $200,000, to the Israel Museum on loan display. The coins belonged to the late Adolf Reifenberg and the collection is regarded as one of the most important in Jewish numismatics. It includes unique coins from the Bar Kochba period. When the bank heard that Reifenberg’s heirs had decided to put the collection up for sale in Zurich it decided to purchase it to prevent its removal abroad.
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