Нумизматични аргументи против хипотетичното монетосечене на дръстърския деспот Йоан Тертер
Numismatic arguments against the hypothetical coinage of John Terter, Despot of Tristria

Summary/Abstract: The article declines the possibility that John Terter had a personal coinage in Tristria. All of the examined numismatic and historical arguments reject the possibility that in the mentioned two short chronicles Terter, the son of Dobrotitza, had realized his own coinage in Tristria after 1369, when the town passed into Dobrotitza’s possession. The precedent of self-coinage of a master without a title and without an assigned right to coinage was not realized and is merely a hypothetical mental construction. With that said, the whole hypothesis of “self-governing despot John Terter in Tristria” loses its sole material and documentary basis. The silver coin found in Pacuiul lui Soare is identified as a coin of the Serbian despot John Uglesha and both types of copper coins are identified as coins of despot Dobrotitza.

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