BBC Arabic investigates how Gaza lost a fortune whilst auction houses around the world made theirs on this £100,000 ancient Alexander the Great coin.
On the shoreline of Gaza a hoard of some of the rarest coins of the ancient world is found by some fishermen. .
Then the coins disappear; the history they can tell us about Alexander the Great and Gaza lost with them.
A few months later the same type of coins start popping up for sale in the velvet displays of auction houses around the world. One Alexander decadrachm sells for £100,000 at Roma Numismatics, an auction house in London. Over the next two years a total 22 tumble onto the market. But none of these extremely rare coins have any ownership history at all. So where did they come from? Show less