Copper coins with flat form, Tarnovo mint, sixth type
- Metal
- Copper
- Mint
- Tarnovo
- Found in Tarnovo
- 87 coins
Obverse
Model of the fortress wall of the city of Tarnovo with three towers and an arched gate. On both sides of the image are the letters Т - Р, and below it НВ. Numerous variants of the representation of the Tarnovo fortress are known. Often the towers are strongly expanded at the top. Correct spelling of the city's name is very rare. Usually the letter В is replaced with Н or Н.
Reverse
Tsar Ioan Alexander and his son Michael Asen, standing, full-length, with stemmata with pendilia, divitision, maniakion, and loros, holding between them a labarum with a long handle. Their free hands are placed before their chests in a sign of humility. In the left field is inscribed М/А and the title Ϸ (царь), and in the right - ΙѠ/АЛЄ and again the title Ϸ (царь). Inscriptions are often incomplete.
Reconstructions
Line drawings reconstructing the coin's design from the surviving specimens.
Also struck by Ivan Alexander
- Silver groshes, Tarnovo mint, first type
- 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
- Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, fourth type
- Copper coins with flat form, Tarnovo mint, fifth 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).





























