Coins from the Excavations of the Byzantine Street (Area S2), City of David, Jerusalem

The coins retrieved from beneath the stone-paved Byzantine street in the City of David, Jerusalem, were studied with the hope that they will provide a date for its construction. Although only few of the coins assigned to the pre-street phase provided precise dates, the analysis of the numismatic assemblage provided dates for the various excavation strata, spanning the first and eighth centuries CE. These coins are an important addition to the extensive coin dataset recorded in the adjacent and contemporaneous Givʻati Parking Lot excavations.