Ancient Coins Found in Charity Box

TEHRAN (FNA)- Five silver coins belonging to the Safavid era have been found in a public charity box and were handed over to authorities in Tehran.

According to a press tv report, No one knows just how these antique coins ended up in the charity box, which makes the discovery all the more amazing, but wherever they came from the coins have now ended their journey and are in the hands of Cultural Heritage officials who will preserve them as relics of Iran’s great Safavid era.

Elsewhere in Tehran another sixteen silver and bronze Sassanid, Safavid and Parthian coins have also been found and turned over to the Culture and Heritage society.