Nummi nordafricani e occidentali (V-inizi VI secolo) in Palestina: nuovi dati

The nummi and their imitations presented in this paper are kept in the Coin Cabinet of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Museum in Jerusalem. The coins were part of Carthage's Proto-Vandal, Vandal and Byzantine coinage and include issues minted under the Ostrogoths (especially Baduila) and, in a rather exceptional case, the Merovingian king Childebert (511-558). The small bronze coins under discussion circulated in the Levant where they were counted for their weight (1 scrupule = 1.13 g) and functioned to ensure gold-copper-convertibility, especially at the time of the monetary reform of Anastasius.