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‘Atiqot 97 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Coins from the al-Waṭṭa Quarter, Safed (Ẓefat)
(pp. 155–223)
Robert Kool and Ariel Berman
Keywords: Galilee, numismatics, economy, trade, Syria, Egypt, Bilad al-Sham, Venetian merchants, Western Europe
A total of 666 coins were unearthed in the excavation of the densely populated medieval neighborhood of al-Waṭṭa, Safed, including isolated coin finds and two hoards. One hoard (A) comprises 125 Mamluk silver
dirhams
and Venetian
grossi
, which were concealed together in an earthenware money box, and the other, smaller hoard (B), comprises 33 copper
fulus
. The distribution pattern of the coin types and mints provides previously unknown details concerning the use and circulation of coins within the Mamluk state, between the fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries CE.