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‘Atiqot 71 (2012)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Coins from Khirbat el-Thahiriya
(pp. 73–77)
Robert Kool
Keywords: numismatics, Mamluk period
Twenty-six bronze and copper coins were recovered from a large building (a farmhouse or monastery) and an adjacent olive press at Khirbat el-Thahiriya, dating to the Byzantine and Abbasid periods. The earliest datable coin is an isolated stray find of a bronze Hasmonean
prutah
, minted by Alexander Jannaeus (104–76 BCE). The majority of the coins span a relatively short period, beginning in the fifth–sixth centuries and ending in the mid-eighth century CE.