Watch List notes:

Judaea. Bronze Prutah; Judaea; 5th-6th cent. CE, Cast Lead Prutah, 1.05g. Hendin-1156 (with future adjustment). Obv: Seven pellets each surrounded by a ringlet, one in the center around which the six others are arranged; all within a circular border, attached to which is yet another pellet surrounded by a ringlet. Rx: Blank. Considered by Hendin, Fifth Edition (2010), no. 1156 to be an enigmatic lead coin or token of uncertain date. More recent research, however, which will be followed by Hendin in his forthcoming Sixth Edition, has shown that these round objects are in fact fragments of cast lead mirror frames, larger pieces of which have been excavated at several sites in Israel. Once detached from the mirror frames, the round pieces might indeed have served as currency. See Y. Fahri, Two Types of Lead Currency from Late Roman / Early Byzantine Palestine, Israel Numismatic Research 8, 2014, pp. 135-143. We thank David Hendin for sending us a scan of this article.. EF