Cafarnao IX. Addenda: Coins from the 2011 surface survey

The most recent intervention of the archaeological service of Cafarnao’s site allowed the recovery of 6 coins. It is relevant to stress the substantial correspondence of these new relics with what was highlighted in the general study of the town’s coin data: considerable circulation in the Late Antiquity with prolonged emission from the 4th century up to, at least, the middle of the 6th century. Their presence in the same area and in the top layers of the site, together with Byzantine age coins of the 6th century, proves their use as lower value currency, probably because their weight and module were compatible with the smallest fractions of the follis of Anastasius and Justinian I.