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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 7469958, member: 74222&quot;]In 2017 a small hoard of byzantine coins were found outside Jerusalem:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293594[/ATTACH]</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hoard-of-coins-from-1400-year-old-byzantine-site-tell-story-of-persian-invasion/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hoard-of-coins-from-1400-year-old-byzantine-site-tell-story-of-persian-invasion/" rel="nofollow">https://www.timesofisrael.com/hoard-of-coins-from-1400-year-old-byzantine-site-tell-story-of-persian-invasion/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can see &quot;Con&quot; and appearently &quot;Theup&quot;. Coins of Constantinople and Theupolis (Antiochia) did indeed circulate outside their mint-city.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT..</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some weird denomination of Thessaloniki (16 nummion) and Alexandria (12 nummion):</p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian, 16 nummion, Thessaloniki:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293599[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Heraclius, 12 nummion, Alexandria:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293600[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Note they have weird denomination. For that reason I want to ask whether we have found hoards of these coins outside their mintcity? Did they circulate outside the city they were minted in? Or did they only circulate in their respective city they were minted in?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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