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 View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Bulgaria| > SH59927Bulgaria, Second Empire, Ivan Shishman, 1371 - 1395 A.D. Ivan Alexander divided his kingdom between his two sons. Ivan Shishman inherited the central portion of Bulgaria with the capital Tarnovo. In 1393, after three-month siege, Tarnovo fell to the Ottoman Empire. Ivan Shishman continued to rule in Nikopol as an Ottoman vassal but Sultan Bayezit I had him beheaded on June 3, 1395.
SH59927. Billon trachy, Radushev-Zhekov type 1.15.16 (R3); Youroukova-Penchev 131, gVF, Tarnovo mint, weight 1.120g, maximum diameter 19.5mm, die axis 0o, 1371 - 1393; obverse rampant lion left; reverse Shishman tsar monogram; SOLD
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