Coins from the Excavations at Khorazin / המטבעות שנתגלו בחפירות כורזין

The selection described is representative of the 1,200 coins found in the excavations at Khorazin (see the preceding article). They were found in two principal hoards: (a) The earliest coin of this hoard is of Hadrian, struck in A.D. 134 at the mint of Gaza; the latest coin was struck under Helena (Constantine's mother) in ca. A.D. 340. Several hundreds of coins (over 90% of this group) are from the relatively short period between A.D. 290 and 340. The complex of the mints represented in hoard A shows, as in many other hoards, that during the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. the city-coins remained in circulation in their near geographic vicinity, and only rarely did they wander to outside districts. Thus, at Khorazin, city coins of Diocaesarea (Sepphoris), Hippos, Caesarea and Tyre were found. All the late Roman coins are from mints of which coins were very popular in this country, and none of the coins are from a remote mint never before represented in local numismatic finds. No coins were discovered at Khorazin from the two-generation period of A.D. 340 to ca. A.D. 390, probably because the site had been abandoned after the Gallus revolt (A.D. 351—52). (B) The second hoard includes coins struck from ca. A.D. 390 through the entire 5th century A.D.