Bronze coins in the debris are significant for a different reason.

Coins in ancient contexts are often found in locations where they were deliberately hidden — buried hoards, walled-up caches — or where they were accidentally lost.

Bronze coins scattered in a burned debris layer often represent the accumulated small change of everyday use: money that was in a person’s possession or in a commercial space when the destruction occurred, that fell from a burning structure or from the pockets of fleeing or dying occupants, and that was subsequently buried by the collapse of the building.

The presence of coins scattered in burned debris rather than collected in a deliberate hoard is often interpreted as evidence of rapid, unplanned abandonment — the kind of situation where there was no opportunity to gather and carry away ordinary valuables.