| Medieval Coins of Bulgaria |  |
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| First Bulgarian Empire, Peter I, 927 - 969 A.D., Lead Bulla Seal |   | This seal was reportedly found together with a hoard of Romanus I, Constantine II and Romanus II solidi, some of which are now available for sale in our Byzantine Gold section. The seal may have once tied a leather bag containing the coins; perhaps a Bulgarian imperial payment.
Peter was the son of Simeon the Great 893 - 927, architect of the Golden Age for the Bulgarian Empire. In 927 the Bulgarians and the Byzantines signed apeace treaty which recognized Peter's Imperial title, the borders and the Bulgarian Patriarchate. In addition, Peter married Maria Lecapene, renamed Eirene (Peace) for the event.
An inferior example (with a finder's cut defacing Peter) was estimated $1000 and sold for $650 plus fees in Triton XI, 2008. |
| SH33751. Lead bulla (tag seal), gVF, weight 18.524 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, die axis 0o, obverse + IhSuS XPI[...]+, facing bust of Christ, holding book of Gospels in left hand, cross behind head; reverse blundered legend naming Peter, facing busts of Peter, wearing chlamys, and his wife, Eirine (Maria) Lecapene, wearing loros, both crowned, holding patriarchal cross between them; well formed seal, nice round thick flan, attractive buff-grey patina; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Second Empire, Todor Svetoslav, 1300 - 1322 |  | Theodore Svetoslav was co-emperor with his father but was sent as hostage to Nogai Khan of the Mongol Golden Horde. His sister was married to Nogai's son Chaka. About 1299 he and brother-in-law Chaka invaded Bulgaria. He convinced the Bulgarian nobility to accept Chaka as Tsar, but then betrayed Chaka, had him murdered, and made himself Tsar in 1300. |
| SH59938. Silver grosch, Raduchev and Zekov type 1.8.1; Youroukova and Penchev 53, EF, weight 1.886 g, maximum diameter 21.3 mm, die axis 180o, obverse Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; reverse Todor Svetoslav standing facing, cruciform scepter in right; SOLD |
| Bulgarian Empire, Theodore Svetoslav, 1300 - 1322 |  | Tsar Theodore Svetoslav was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire. His reign began with the recovery of Southern Bessarabia and a few years later defeated the Byzantines and took back most of northern Thrace occupied by them during the crisis. After 1307 he implemented a peaceful policy towards all neighbors which resulted in expanded trade and economic growth. |
| SH63694. Silver gros, Ljubitsch 11 (table II, 20), EF, weight 1.666 g, maximum diameter 21.74 mm, die axis 180o, Tirnovo mint, obverse IC - XC, Christ enthroned facing, nimbate, raising right hand in blessing, gospels in left; reverse the king standing facing, holding a cruciform scepter in both hands over his right shoulder; ex Gorny & Mosch, auction 201, lot 5132; rare; SOLD |
| ME34842. Copper trachy, Raduchev and Zhekov type 1.4.11, Youroukova and Penchev 42, VF, weight 2.749 g, maximum diameter 26.1 mm, die axis 180o, obverse IC XC, facing bust of Christ; reverse Konstantin on horseback right, holding patriarchal cross; rare; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26458. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, Choice EF, weight 1.606 g, maximum diameter 21.2 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26459. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, EF, weight 1.765 g, maximum diameter 21.3 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26456. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, Choice aEF, weight 1.413 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Second Bulgarian 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. |
| ME47719. Silver grosch, reduced weight; Yuroukova and Penchev 128; Moushmov 7454, pl. LXV 8, EF, weight 0.662 g, maximum diameter 15.5 mm, die axis 180o, Tarnovo mint, c. 1380 - 1393 A.D.; obverse half length figure of Virgin Orans facing, infant Christ's head facing at Her breast, M - Q across field flanking head; reverse Czar standing facing, cruciform scepter in left, legend and monograms around; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26457. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, EF, weight 1.284 g, maximum diameter 21.7 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26453. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, EF, weight 1.703 g, maximum diameter 22.3 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Second Bulgarian 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. |
| ME47142. Silver grosch, reduced weight; Moushmov 7454, pl. LXV 8, c. 0.60g, c. 15mm diameter, Tarnovo mint, c. 1380 - 1393 A.D.; obverse Czar standing facing, cruciform scepter in left, legend and monograms around; reverse half length figure of Virgin Orans facing, infant Christ's head facing at Her breast, M - Q across field flanking head; VF or better, nice examples with the usual imperfect strikes and slightly wavy flans; Forum's random selection from the same group as the coins in the photograph; one coin; SOLD |
| Second Bulgarian 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. |
| ME47718. Silver grosch, reduced weight; Yuroukova and Penchev 128; Moushmov 7454, pl. LXV 8, VF, weight 0.606 g, maximum diameter 15.8 mm, die axis 180o, Tarnovo mint, c. 1380 - 1393 A.D.; obverse half length figure of Virgin Orans facing, infant Christ's head facing at Her breast, M - Q across field flanking head; reverse Czar standing facing, cruciform scepter in left, legend and monograms around; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55329. Silver grosch, Radushev-Zhekov 1.13.3, VF, weight 1.204 g, maximum diameter 20.1 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse IC - XC, Christ standing facing before throne, nimbate, both hands raised in benediction, monograms left and right; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME43771. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, gVF, weight 1.527 g, maximum diameter 20.0 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26450. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, EF, weight 1.724 g, maximum diameter 19.7 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26451. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, EF, weight 1.724 g, maximum diameter 21.5 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26455. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, aEF, weight 1.496 g, maximum diameter 21.2 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgarian, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ19648. Bronze trachy, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D. ), VF, weight 3.478 g, maximum diameter 27.6 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + KeRO HQeI, IC - XC, beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, raising right in benediction, scroll in left; reverse LLESIW DECP Q TW KOMNHNW (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26454. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, aEF, weight 1.565 g, maximum diameter 21.9 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; very nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME26452. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, aEF, weight 1.386 g, maximum diameter 19.4 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; nice for the type; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55511. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, VF, weight 1.137 g, maximum diameter 19.9 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ standing facing before throne, both hands raised in benediction, nimbate, flanked by IC - XC and monograms; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, both holding standard in center, two stars flank base of the standard, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME58993. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, gVF, toned, weight 0.929 g, maximum diameter 20.3 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ enthroned facing, nimbate, with both hands raised in benediction, flanked by monograms; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monograms in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME59112. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, aEF, toned, weight 1.475 g, maximum diameter 19.9 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Lot of 2 Silver Coins, Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55822. Silver lot, 2 Silver Grosch, Radushev-Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, VF, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse IC - XC, Christ standing facing before throne, nimbate, both hands raised in benediction, monograms left and right; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; actual coins in the photograph; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55510. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, aEF, weight 1.552 g, maximum diameter 19.9 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ standing facing before throne, both hands raised in benediction, nimbate, flanked by IC - XC and monograms; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, both holding standard in center, two stars flank base of the standard, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| BB55513. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, VF, weight 1.350 g, maximum diameter 21.018 mm, die axis 0o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ standing facing before throne, both hands raised in benediction, nimbate, flanked by IC - XC and monograms; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, both holding standard in center, two stars flank base of the standard, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55839. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, VF, weight 1.530 g, maximum diameter 20.2 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ36604. Bronze aspron trachy nomisma, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D. ), aF, weight 3.004 g, maximum diameter 23.6 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + KERO HQEI (or similar), beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, scroll in left, IC - XC across fields; reverse LLESIW DECP Q TW KOMNHNW (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them; SOLD |
| Lot of 2 Groshes, Tsardom of Vidin, Bulgaria, Ivan Stratsimir, 1356 - 1396 |  | Factional divisions between feudal landlords had split the Second Bulgarian Empire into three small tsardoms-Vidin, Tarnovo and Karvuna-and several semi-independent principalities. Ivan Stratsimir ruled in Vidin. In 1393 Bulgaria and the surrounding region fell to the Ottoman Empire. Only Vidin remained free from the invading Turks, but this would not last. In 1396 Ivan Stratsimir joined the Christian crusade organized by the Hungarian king Sigismund. The Christian army suffered a heavy defeat on 25 September at the battle of Nicopolis. The victorious Ottoman sultan Bayezid I marched to Vidin and seized it by the end of 1396 or the beginning of 1397. Ivan Stratsimir was captured and imprisoned in the Ottoman capital Bursa where he was probably strangled. |
| ME55654. Silver lot, Lot of 2 Silver Groshes, cf. Radushev - Zhekov 1.14.1 ff., aVF, weight c. 0.6 g, maximum diameter c. 16 mm, obverse Cyrillic legend, half-length nimbate bust of Christ facing, right hand raised in benediction, Gospels in left, flanked by IC - XC (Jesus Christ); reverse Cyrillic legend, Ivan Stratsimir seated facing on throne, lis-tipped scepter in right, mappa in left; actual coins in the photograph; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Imitative of Manuel I Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitatives to finance their military operations against crusaders in northern Greece in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ19645. Bronze aspron trachy nomisma, Hendy, p. 218, Type B (imitative of SBCV 1966 of Manuel I, 1195 - 1200 A.D.), VF, weight 3.213 g, maximum diameter 25.3 mm, die axis 180o, obverse Christ seated facing on throne; reverse Virgin Mary nimbate, standing on right, crowns emperor Manual I, standing on left; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55896. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, VF, weight 1.544 g, maximum diameter 20.3 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55838. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, aVF, weight 1.532 g, maximum diameter 21.5 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and Mikhail Asen, 1331 - 1355 A.D. |  | Ivan Alexander met Byzantine and Serbian threats, and led economic recovery and a cultural renaissance. But later he was overwhelmed by Ottoman and Hungarian invasions, and the Black Death. In an ill-fated effort to combat these problems, he divided the country between his two sons. Bulgaria would face the imminent Ottoman conquest weakened and divided. |
| ME55840. Silver grosch, Radushev - Zhekov 1.13.3 - 6, VF, weight 1.390 g, maximum diameter 20.1 mm, die axis 180o, 1331 - 1355 A.D.; obverse Christ, nimbate, enthroned, facing, with both hands raised in benediction, monogram either side; reverse Ivan and Mikhail standing facing, holding standard in center, two stars inner fields, monogram in outer fields; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ36606. Bronze trachy, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D. ), F, weight 3.274 g, maximum diameter 26.4 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + KERO HQEI (or similar), beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, scroll in left, IC - XC across fields; reverse LLESIW DECP Q TW KOMNHNW (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Second Empire, Ivan Sisman 1371 - 1395 A.D. |  | |
| ME39934. Bronze trachy, Yourokova 136, VF, weight 0.853 g, maximum diameter 19.3 mm, Tarnovo mint, obverse crossed cross, three pellets in quarters; reverse large Sisman monogram, curved line above; SOLD |
| 5 Coin Lot Kingdom of Bulgaria, c. 14th Century A.D. |  | |
| LT40919. Bronze trachy, unattributed to specific type, Fine, one with perforation, c. 14th century A.D.; obverse Standing figures; reverse Monogram; actual coins in the photo; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| ME32022. Bronze trachy, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D. ), Fair/Fine, weight 2.579 g, maximum diameter 24.4 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + KERO HQEI (or similar), beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, scroll in left, IC - XC across fields; reverse LLESIW DECP Q TW KOMNHNW (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Ivan Shishman, 1371 - 1395 A.D. |  | |
| ME39968. Bronze trachy, Youroukova 134, aVF, weight 1.083 g, maximum diameter 16.2 mm, obverse Ivan monogram; reverse Czar monogram; SOLD |
| Lot of 12 Medieval Bulgarian Coins, c. 14th Century A.D. |  | |
| LT40921. Bronze lot, Unattributed, average F, usual thin flans, c. 14th Century A.D. mint, SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Imitative of Isaac II Angelus Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1200 - 1202 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ37794. Bronze aspron trachy nomisma, DOC IV, part 1, p. 440, 2 (Type B imitative of Issac II Angelus, SBCV 2003; DOC IV, part 1, 3, 1185 - 1195 A.D.), VF, weight 3.720 g, maximum diameter 24.9 mm, die axis 180o, c. 1200 - 1202 A.D.; obverse MP-QV, the Virgin enthroned facing, nimbate, wears pallium and maphorium, holds before Her nimbate head of infant Christ; reverse I/CAA/KI/OC - DeC/PO/TH/C, Isaac standing facing facing, wearing crown, divitision, loros, and sagion, cruciform scepter in left, akakia in right, crowned by hand of God above right; SOLD |
| Bulgaria, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ37790. Bronze aspron trachy nomisma, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D. ), VF, weight 2.419 g, maximum diameter 28.5 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + KERO HQEI (or similar), beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, scroll in left, IC - XC across fields; reverse LLESIW DECP Q TW KOMNHNW (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them; SOLD |
| Bulgarian, Imitative of Alexis III, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. |  | Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest "Bulgarian" imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. |
| BZ83213. Bronze trachy, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D. ), F, weight 2.265 g, maximum diameter 29.0 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + KeRO HQeI, IC - XC, beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, raising right in benediction, scroll in left; reverse LLESIW DECP Q TW KOMNHNW (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them; SOLD |
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