A batch of coin finds from the fortress of Bilhorod on Dniester, in the collection of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev Cover Image

Un lot de monede descoperite la Cetatea Albă, din colecţia Institutului de Arheologie al Academiei Naţionale de Ştiinţe a Ucrainei din Kiev
A batch of coin finds from the fortress of Bilhorod on Dniester, in the collection of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev

Author(s): IRINA Karashevich, Ana Boldureanu, Lilia V. Dergaciova
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Economic history, Ancient World, Middle Ages
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: The Fortress of Bilhorod on Dniester; Medieval Numismatics; Tatar issues; Crimean issues; Moldovan issues; Ottoman issues;

Summary/Abstract: The authors are presenting 119 coin finds atested on the territory of the fortress of Bilhorod on the river Dniester (also called Tyras, Akdja Kerman, Asprokastron, Cetatea Albă, Akkerman). The numismatic material have been found during the archaeological excavations, supervised by L. D. Dmitrov in 1946-1947, 1949, 1950 and A. I. Furmanskaya in 1953, 1958-1962 on the South-East of glacis, on the coast of firth. The 119 coin specimens represent various monetary spaces and covered a wide time range. They were minted by Olbia (2 ex.), the Golden Horde (38 ex.), the Despotate of Epirus (1 ex.), the Moldovan medieval state (23 ex.), the Ottoman Empire and it’s imitations (43 ex.), the Crimean Khanate and it’s imitations (2 ex.), the Scotland (1 ex.); imitation of Netherland Thaler (1 ex.) and some unidentified emisions (8 ex.).

  • Issue Year: 40/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-142
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: English, Romanian