A Rare Aureus of Antoninus Pius at Bethsaida

Abstract

In the summer of 2010 a rare aureus naming Antoninus Pius and struck in 138 CE was
unearthed in excavations at Bethsaida, located north of the Sea of Galilee. The coin was found
in a small room of a house with second-century CE finds and together with an iron lance
head, a dagger and an iron sickle in an adjacent room. This article summarizes the coin’s
archaeological context.