In addition, a hoard of 36 Byzantine coins were found in a shallow depression in the floor apse.
Many Byzantine coins, with their stick-like figures, can be found mounted in jewelry.
Byzantine coins dating back to c. 498-518, with the mark of Anastasius I, were retrieved on the beach in 1970.
In these territories, the circulation of Mongol and Byzantine coins was predominant during the first half of the 14th century.
Archeologists recovered hundreds of Byzantine coins from beneath the floor of the synagogue.
In the 6th century the cross with four fields (with either letters or heraldry), tetragramme, appear on Byzantine coins.
Also Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins were unearthed by farmers.
And the Byzantine coins imply some connection with Constantinople.
His new hyperpyron would be the standard Byzantine coin for the next two hundred years.
The institute also has one of the world's largest coin collections, especially of Roman and Byzantine coins.