JERUSALEM—American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction in the United States, Israel’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The quarter shekel silver coin , minted in the year 69 – just decades after the resurrection of Jesus – is one of just two confirmed to exist. The other has been in the British Museum’s collection for a century. It was minted during the fourth year of the First Jewish Revolt against ancient Rome in the first century A.D. Several other examples of the coin are...