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Artifact
- Type
- Matrix
- General layout
- Iconography and legend
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original die
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26.2
- Weight (g)
- 20.44
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Cast
- Countermark
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- Condition
- The handle broke and is missing, but traces of it are visible. Jordanov 1987, p. 675, does not comment on this, but suggests that the disc must have been attached to some device.
Dating
- Date
- 1371-1395
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Onomastics
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History
- Category
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- Issuer
- Ivan Shishman
- Issuer's milieu
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- Place of origin
- Veliko Tarnovo
- Find place
- Veliko Tarnovo
- Find date
- Find circumstances
- Excavations
- Modern location
- Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria)
- Institution and repository
- Regional Historical Museum – Veliko Tarnovo
- Collection and inventory
- 865 M/TOM
- Acquisition
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- Modern observations
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Discovered during excavations in the northern tower of the palace complex at Tsarevets, in 1947.
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Medieval Bulgarian
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
- Iconography, Onomastics
- Iconography
- Standing figure of tsar Ivan Shishman, crowned, holding scepter (right hand)
- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
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- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
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Apparatus
The two Шs in ligatureLegend and Translation
Шишманъ царъ
Shishman, tsar
References
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- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
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Commentary
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