Major mints: Akko, Sepphoris, Tiberias.

The bad section of Hasmonean and Roman Judaea, as Simon Maccabaeus had transported all of the uncompromising Jewish population to Judaea. Those who remained were those who did not mind Seleukid rule. After enduring Herod the Great, it fell to his son Herod Antipas, who as tetrarch dealt with such things as the objections of John the Baptist to Herods affair with the wife of his brother Philip. Subsequently it passed to Agrippa I, then under direct Roman control in 44. The historian Josephus, in command of a Jewish force in the First Revolt, surrendered to Vespasian at Jotapata in 67.

As Jerusalem and the core of Judaea had been devastated in that war, the cultural center of Judaism moved to Galilee, which had remained neutral. Hence in this area the rabbi Judah the Nasi laid the foundations of the Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud at Sepphoris.

The coins of the towns are all typically Roman and semi-pagan. They bear more-or-less neutral symbols: the city-name in wreath a palm-tree, two grain-ears, and so on. At Tiberias, a Roman foundation, the types are more overtly pagan: Tyche, Hygeia, Nike and Zeus in his temple are typical.

Akko was a mint under Alexander and the Ptolemies, and was refounded as a Roman colony by Nero. Its mint issued bronzes to the reign of Gallienus