Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, eleventh type
Constantine Tih Asen1257-1277
- Metal
- Copper
- Mint
- Tarnovo
- Diameter
- 18 mm
- Weight
- 1.1 g
- Rarity
- R8 — between 15 and 70 known
- Found in Tarnovo
- 39 coins
Obverse
Seraphim with a nimbus.
Reverse
Half-length image of a ruler with a stemma with pendilia. The tsar has a rounded beard and mustache. He is dressed in a divitision. A loros is draped across his chest and left arm. In His right hand He holds a high labarum with a long handle, and in His left hand a globus cruciger. To the right of the figure is the abbreviation of the title tsar - Ѳ.
Reconstructions
Line drawings reconstructing the coin's design from the surviving specimens.
Also struck by Constantine Tih Asen
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, first type (without family name)
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, second type (without family name)
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, third type (without family name)
Copper scyphate coins, Tarnovo mint, fourth type (with family name Asen)
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, fifth type (with family name Asen)
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, sixth type
Copper scyphate coins, Tarnovo mint, seventh type
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, eighth type
Copper scyphate coin, Tarnovo mint, ninth type
Copper scyphate coins, Tarnovo mint, tenth type
Coin photographs and reconstruction drawings from A. Radushev & G. Zhekov, Catalogue of Bulgarian Medieval Coins IX–XV c. (Agató, 1999).