Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, fourth type


- Metal
- Copper
- Mint
- Tarnovo
- Diameter
- 19 mm
- Weight
- 1.2 g
- Rarity
- R7 — between 70 and 200 known
Obverse
Large even cross with arc-shaped expansions at the ends of the arms, ending with beads. At the bottom, the cross is additionally decorated with symmetrically arranged acanthus leaves. No inscription.
Reverse
Tsar Ioan Asen, standing, full-length, with stemma with pendilia. He is dressed in divitision and maniakion. Across his chest is draped a loros, whose end hangs over His left hand. In His right hand He holds a sceptre with a cross with a short handle, and in His left - anexikakia. To the left of the figure is the monogram IW, and to the right the abbreviation of the title царѫ.
Reconstructions
Line drawings reconstructing the coin's design from the surviving specimens.
Also struck by Ivan Alexander
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Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, first type
Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, second type
Copper coins with scyphate form, Tarnovo mint, third type
Flat copper coin, Tarnovo mint, first pattern elite die
Copper coins with flat form, Tarnovo mint, fifth type
Copper coins with flat form, Tarnovo mint, sixth type
Copper coins with lightly scyphate form, Tarnovo mint, seventh type
Flat copper coins, presumed Shumen - Preslav mint
Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, first type
Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, second type
Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, third type
Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, fourth type
Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, fifth type
Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, sixth type
Copper scyphate coins, presumed Cherven mint, seventh type
Copper scyphate coins, presumed Cherven mint, eighth type
Copper slightly scyphate coins, presumed Cherven mint, ninth type
Copper slightly scyphate coins, unlocalised mint
Anonymous flat copper coins, Tarnovo mint, first type
Anonymous flat copper coins, Tarnovo mint, second type
Coin photographs and reconstruction drawings from A. Radushev & G. Zhekov, Catalogue of Bulgarian Medieval Coins IX–XV c. (Agató, 1999).

