Batcreek Vs Numismatics

Batcreek Vs Numismatics
By Dewey Maggard

During World War II, the Army Corps of Engineers was digging up the earth in preparations for an Army Installation at this place called Bat Creek, Tenn. To the amazement of those involved with this project, one of the men found this cache of loose coins, all together at a depth of approximately twelve feet. As he looked over the small pieces of round disks, he was at a loss to know what they were. He gathered them up and took them to his superior officer to have a look.

The officer was no better off, but decided these might be of some unusual significance due to the depth of where they were found. He in turn took them to the commanding officer for further examination. After many deliberations, these coins finally ended up with the curator of the Smithsonian Institute.

It was soon discovered to be Hebrew inscriptions on the coins, and presently a Hebrew scholar was summoned. His findings revealed these coins were all from the period of the Maccabees of the Bar-Koba revolt era of 133 A.D. This find did not make headlines of national newspapers. Why? Good question! It seems anytime a fantastic discovery is made, there are always the skeptics—well, maybe they were planted. So, rather than face possible embarrassment, the story dies and valuable knowledge becomes suppressed.

Within a few years after this event, other startling discoveries have been made in fifty-two other locations in eleven states all bordering each other. The finds have all been at several feet in depth. There are too many findings to be mere coincidental.

How and why these coins came to be where they are cause for much spec-ulation. The fact remains, the coinages found have all dated from as early as 450 B.C. to 90 A.D. to no later than 133 A.D. The answer is simple. There was a flow of people coming here from Europe, Middle East, and other places. The majority of the finds were of Jewish and Roman origins. Numismatics once again places history in an embarrassing position...Yes, coins tell the story. As late as 1982, the Bat Creek coins could still be seen at Smithsonian. I am not sure if this is still true.

However, Professor Barry Fell of Harvard, and a Professor associate of his, Professor Cyrus Gordon have verified the coins presence at that time. According to these men, there are numerous other artifacts that co-relate to these coinage finds validating the presence of people who carried them here from across the oceans in ancient times.

The Indian Cultural Center in Alburquerque is but one of many cites to validate this fact. For example, the Zuni Indians now know their lanquage is identical to the Libyians thanks to the efforts of Dr. Barry Fell and his associates. This of course means the Libyians of the Great Sea Peoples were once present here.

There are numerous places in New England that testify to the presence of ancient peoples from Egypt and others of Celtic origins. For example the Alogonquin indians were using Egyptian hyrogliphics in their written language long before Champollion deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1798. A French priest of the 1500's made the discovery of their usage of these symbols and wrote of it in his diary. Remnants of these writings are in a museum the Merimac vicinity of New York as attested to again by Dr. Fell.

One last point; If we look at the biblical records of King Solomons cargo lists, we learn that his borrowed sea captains from Hiram of Tyre were circumnavigating this globe during his time. And if fact, were bringing silver out of Mexico back to him. Many facts too numerous to mention in an article of this nature testify to the thrilling facts of the truth of prophecies concerning the sifting of Gods people. See Amos 9;15 where the Lord has stated in so many words He would sift his people to the four corners of the earth, yet he would not lose one grain of them. - (Paraphrased)

Through all of this, it is thrilling to see how God has been at work among His children in all parts of the world. In this regard, I make one more reference to the presence of the old world civilization here in our hemisphere long before Christ was born.

Thirty five miles west of Los Lunas New Mexico in high desert there is a huge stone with Phoenician writing on it. My son and I did considerable detective sleuthing to find this stone after I learned of it's presence through the work of Dr. Barry Fell. We found this stone and photograped it with ourselves sitting next to it. Sure enough, there is Phoenician writing on it.

There are now five other Professors who work with dead languages who are in agreement as to the text of this stone. The text contains a portion of the ten commandments. These men have no axe to grind. They are scholars who risk their reputations with the school of anti-diffusionist groups. The evidence is overwhelming. Other teams of archeologist's have found evidence of old world presence here in the form of a salt encrusted Star of David in a salt mine in Central America dating to 400 b.c. This Star was 4 feet in height. My own research reveals the earliest known Star of David dates in the 600 B.C. period. It was found in Gaza. The further one cares to dig through the ancient debris of the past, the more thrilling is the knowledge 'old world' presence here in this hemisphere- and to my delight as a numismatist, I can truly say- Coins do tell the story!.

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