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‘Atiqot 95 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
Coins from Yafo (Jaffa), Yehuda Ha-Yammit Street
(pp. 197–199)
Robert Kool
Keywords: numismatics, Armenian kingdom, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, burgi, Christian kingdom, Third Crusade, Frankish period
Eight coins were found in the excavations on Yehuda Ha-Yammit Street in Yafo, four of which were identified. The coins range in date from the Byzantine period (beginning of the fourth century CE) to the mid-thirteenth century CE. Two of the later medieval-period coins are of interest: a copper tank of the Armenian ruler Levon I, minted in Sis, and the other, a
fals
dated to the reign of Al-Naṣir Yusuf II, the Ayyubid ruler of Damascus in the mid-thirteenth century CE.