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‘Atiqot 95 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Coins from Ben Shemen
(pp.187–189)
Gabriela Bijovsky
Keywords: numismatics, Lodian Shephelah, Early Roman, Jewish settlement
Sixteen coins were discovered during the excavation at Ben Shemen, ten of them were identified. The coins include two Hasmonean
pruṭot
, an autonomous issue minted in the city of Philadelphia (Rabbat Amon) and seven Late Roman
minimi
of the fourth and fifth centuries CE.