ДВЕ МОНЕТИ – ИЗДАНИЯ НА КРЪСТОНОСНИТЕ КНЯЖЕСТВА В НАХОДКАТА ОТ ВИДИН (1962 ГОДИНА)
TWO COINS – ISSUES OF THE CRUSADER PRINCIPALITIES IN THE COIN HOARD FROM VIDIN (1962)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53250/nse20.137-143Keywords:
imitative coin types from the period of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (13th – 1 4th centuries), disputed attribution, late coin issues of the Crusader principalities: Tripoli (1105 – 1289) and Sidon (1110 – 1187)Abstract
In 1962, an important coin hoard was discovered in Vidin with coins from the 12th – 14th centuries, which, according to the author of the 2003 publication – Vl. Penchev, were involved in monetary circulation in the first half of the 14th century. In this hoard there are also a certain number of imitative coin types from the period of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom (14th century). It is accepted in scholarship that the imitative coins were issued in order to satisfy the growing commodity-monetary exchange of the kingdom. The engraving work of the imitative coins is so poor that in most cases no meaningful images or inscriptions can be discerned. The latter allows a misinterpretation of their iconography and, accordingly, their incorrect attribution to a ruler, region or state. More attention is paid here to two such imitative coins from the same hoard which, in contrast to the 2003 publication, should be attributed as late issues of the Crusader principalities: Tripoli (1105 – 1289) and Sidon (1110 – 1187).
