Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
97 (2019) 155-223
Keywords:
Coins, Ancient
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Material culture History
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Ḳiryat ha-Omanim (Safed, Israel)
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Safed (Israel) Antiquities
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Eretz Israel History 1291-1517, Mamluk period
Abstract:
A total of 666 coins were unearthed in the excavation of the densely populated medieval neighborhood of al-Waṭṭa, Safed, including isolated coin finds and two hoards. One hoard (A) comprises 125 Mamluk silver dirhams and Venetian grossi, which were concealed together in an earthenware money box, and the other, smaller hoard (B), comprises 33 copper fulus. The distribution pattern of the coin types and mints provides previously unknown details concerning the use and circulation of coins within the Mamluk state, between the fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries CE.
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