Contents: Empty manilla with a small japanese (?) bag containing 1 coin, 1 small note, and 1 letter. I had a heads up about this in this email.

Contents:

bag - bag
coin & bag - coin and baggie 1
coin & bag - coin and baggie 2
coin1 - coin closeup 1 (coin has been ID'd)
coin2 - coin closeup 2
coin2 - letter

Note their tip o' the hat to Juls, who has been posting a ton of clues lately. Sorry, Juls, they pegged you as a 'he' :)

email me any info on this

Ammon hooks up some Japanese help:

Well... it's a shop in Kyoto. Founded in 1663, the store is called 
Kyukyodo which means something along the lines of 'House of Doves' (not 
a terribly accurate translation, but close enough). It apparently got 
the name because a lot of doves (the character could also mean pigeon, 
but I'm thinking dove) live(d) in the area.

It looks like it started out as something of a drugstore, but eventually 
turned into something of a shop for finery... that might have served the 
imperial family (until 1942? not sure what the date is attached to 
without much more headache).

I saw mention of incense and possibly jewellery.

The bag itself...

The big character means dove, and the 3 stylized characters at the 
bottom are the shop's name (dove being the first character there). The 
line above that is a list of their wares: perfume, something, something, 
japanese style writing tools, tea utensils.

Juls:

Just a wee tip for now (I just got up :-) )  Coin face one has the legend Qumran -
you may already be aware, but just in case you're not, this is where the Dead Sea
Scrolls were found.

I'm not well up on coins, however, I think it's possible that this one could be a
commemorative issue related to the discovery.

A little background: the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Qumran,
Palestine, in 1947, but the excavations were ongoing for years.  Most of the
thousands of fragments are still unpublished - an editorial team was apppointed in
1953 to decipher and edit and exercised a kind of monopoly over the material which
has caused a lot of anger and resentment among archaeologists because they weren't
getting the stuff published but were denying access to anyone else.  Normal
practice would have seen the publication of a regular series of interim reports.
The monopoly was breached in 1991 and microfilm of all the texts, published and
unpublished, was finally made available to scholars by an American library which
had obtained a full set of negatives.

http://amerisrael.com/article_historical_sites_01.html

There's a piccie of the coin at the bottom of the page and a good bit of what is
probably highly relevant info, here's what I reckon..

The Essene community is probably one of the more significant factors linked to
this coin, their apocalyptic tendencies tie in well with overarching themes in the
announcements.  There have been a few writings from the fringe about the Essene
community and one of the ideas that have been put forward has been that the birth
of Jesus as the Messiah was an event that was deliberately engineered by this
community, ie. they saw to it that predicted occurrences took place surrounding
the event and other requirement fulfilled that would legitimise it.  Whether or
not one takes that seriously, I do get a sense from these announcements of a
community of people deliberately engineering an event of significance.  Either
way, the Essenes certainly had a very significant influence on Christianity and it
seems likely that Jesus did have some connections with them.  One other thing I
should say, and I'm not too sure of this, I guess I should check it out, but I'm
pretty sure that I recall something about the Catholic church exercising some form
of control or influence over the team who were originally analysing the scrolls.

http://www.kyoto-ipage.ne.jp/contents/kurasu/nakagyo.htm has the phone number under entry 00185 but the page is japaneese I think so I cant read it.

'Feducia cordis'
http://www.peace-lutheran-church.org/sexage03.htm
'Then there are those Jesus likens to the seed that falls in good ground. They are the ones who hear the Word of God and believe it. They not only believe it is true, they live in that truth. You see, saving faith is not merely accepting propositions of low probability, it is accepting the Word of God as true, and living in it. Luther called it 'Fiducia Cordis', a trust in the heart that causes one to risk everything on the faithfulness of God. It means living your life as though you cannot die, except physically, and that only for a time. It means living as though you cannot lose, and all that you need is certain and sure, so you can think more about others than yourself. Living in faith means that you take God at His Word and live in it'

Ah! Good closeups! I think 5 sheckles form a 1982 series: http://www.metalbox.net/hrobinso/coins/wcip98.html
Qumran Caves ( KOOM-rahn) Qumran is located about one mile inland from the northwest corner of the Dead Sea. Qumran is 8 1/2 miles south of Jericho and is surrounded by caves. 40 of those caves contained materials indicating that the caves were used and 3 caves have provided hundreds of biblical and non-biblical texts (Known as the Dead Sea Scrolls

I note the codex has been referred to before also. The codex is the original bible of bound papayri. The books the papayri were bound into.

The only reference to language per this is the mesopotamian Hammuraubi or the like. I have some info on that I can send on.

RE letter: What "runes" does Orphanage refer to with respect to the 19 century quotation?

I can also now understand how the Gaelic could be written the way it was. It is possible that they phonetically transcribed an Irish speaker rather than wrote it in Scottish.

I look forward to thursdays clues.