Flat copper coins, additionally silvered (red aspron), Tarnovo mint, first type

Metal: Copper
Mint: Tarnovo
Diameter: 15-16 mm
Weight: 1.2-1.3 g
Rarity: R2 — over 5,000 known

Obverse

Large cross with arms ending in expansions at the tips. In the fields between the arms are depicted four groups of three dots each, arranged in a triangle.

Reverse

Large monogram ШР (or one of the variants indicated in the table on p. 205) of the family name Шишманъ, composed of the letters Ш and Н and the abbreviation of the title царѫ - Р. Above them the letter М instead of a ligature. The image is within a beaded circle.

Reconstructions

Line drawings reconstructing the coin's design from the surviving specimens.

Also struck by Ivan Shishman

Coronation silver grosh, Tarnovo mint
Silver groshes, Tarnovo mint, first type (with Tsar Ioan Alexander)
Silver groshes, Tarnovo mint, second type
Silver grosh, Tarnovo mint, third type
Flat copper coins, additionally silvered (red aspron), Tarnovo mint, second type
Copper coin, Tarnovo mint, first model elite die
Flat copper coins, Tarnovo mint, second type
Flat copper coins, Tarnovo mint, third type
Silver coin, grosh-akche, associated with the fall of Tarnovo

Coin photographs and reconstruction drawings from A. Radushev & G. Zhekov, Catalogue of Bulgarian Medieval Coins IX–XV c. (Agató, 1999).