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A hoard of Byzantine and Arab-Byzantine coins from the excavations at Jerash.

New publication by Achim Lichtenberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Rubina Raja (AU).

Lichtenberger, A. & Raja, R. (2015). A hoard of Byzantine and Arab-Byzantine coins from the excavations at Jerash. 6. Jerash 2014. Numismatic Chronicle, 175 (Coin Hoards 2015), 299-308.

Abstract 

In 2014 during the campaign of the Danish-German Northwest Quarter project a hoard of Byzantine and Arab-Byzantine coins were found in an earthquake destroyed house. This coin hoard is the second of its kind from the region to be published and gives crucial insight into coin circulation and iconography in the early pre-reform Islamic period.

The coin hoard has just been published in The Numismatic Chronicle.