The nummi and their imitations presented in this paper are kept in the Coin Cabinet of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Museum in Jerusalem. The coins were part of Carthage's Proto-Vandal, Vandal and Byzantine coinage and include issues minted under the Ostrogoths (especially Baduila) and, in a rather exceptional case, the Merovingian king Childebert (511-558). The small bronze coins under discussion circulated in the Levant where they were counted for their weight (1 scrupule = 1.13 g) and functioned to ensure gold-copper-convertibility, especially at the time of the monetary reform of Anastasius.
