The Coin Cabinet of the Israel Museum holds a hoard of 476 bronze coins from the 4th–early 7th centuries CE. The oldest coins date to 325–326 CE while the most recent are of the Byzantine Emperor Focas, minted between 603 and 610CE. The hoard appears to have been found inside a pottery jar that in turn was buried with other 30 bronze objects (candelabra, oil lamps, steelyard balances, jewelry, signet rings and varia) inside a large pithos. Even if trade and exchanges in money in the Palestine are well known and studied, the absence of secure archaeological data becomes the main weakness to reach a convincing conclusion.
