Category: Science

Coining technology — Part 3: Machine mintage of testons and thalers

Coining technology — Part 3: Machine mintage of testons and thalers

At the end of the XV century - early XVI century Europe saw the rise of trade relations with the sharp increase in cash flow. At the same time begins the influx of a large amount of silver ...

Coining technology – Part 2, Middle Ages – from barbaric imitations to a penny.

Coining technology – Part 2, Middle Ages – from barbaric imitations to a penny.

Degradation of the Roman coinage coincided with the political and economic crisis of the Western Roman Empire in the V century AD. After the Rome's fall money circulation was on the decline. The invaders used the stolen Roman ...

Chapter 2. Crimean Mint (Kyrym).

Chapter 2. Crimean Mint (Kyrym).

МД-8  MD-8 The initial name of the Crimean peninsula was Tavrika after its ancient inhabitants of Tauris. Mongols conquered the peninsula in 1239 and together with the Dnieper-Dniester have made it one of the 14 Ulus of the ...

Coining technology — part I. Ancient Greece to Late Roman Empire

Coining technology — part I. Ancient Greece to Late Roman Empire

As well as thousands years ago, before becoming a coin a piece of metal has a long way to go – from a mine to master’s stamp. Here on these pages we shall try to follow and ...

Crimea’s silver coining of djuchid period.

Crimea’s silver coining of djuchid period.

Mengu-Timur (665-679 / 1266-1280) The yarmacks of 665s became the first type of silver coins of Crimean Ulus after the Golden Horde separation from the Mongol Empire, which were coined from Mengu-Timur.   5а,b. Mengu-Timur, Crimea ...

Imitation of European coining. Short review from the ancient times to the 19th century

http://muzeydeneg.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1.1-10-mm-v-vyisotu-300x116.jpg

Studying ancient coins at the auctions on the regular basis, the author could not have noticed the similarity of some of them, sometimes just astonishing. Such coincidences made me study this more carefully. Finding new coins and gathering new information ...

Legends and abbreviations of European coins of the 14-19th centuries

Legends and abbreviations of European coins of the 14-19th centuries

Studying ancient European coins of the 14-19 centuries, including thalers, many collectors face the problem of how to decode the legend. What is written on the coin? The thing is that in the Middle ages the majority of inscriptions was ...

Short review of Saxon coins – schreckenbergers.

Short review of Saxon coins – schreckenbergers.

  Schreckenberger is a name of a silver coin that was coined in Saxonia since 1498. The name came from the mount Shrekenberg (germ. Schreckenberg, literally – Scary mountain), where the silver for its coining was gained. ...

Temporary mints and undefined coins issues of Bulgar Ulus of the Golden Horde of the 13th century

Temporary mints and undefined coins issues of Bulgar Ulus of the Golden Horde of the 13th century

The city of Bilyar   The city of Bilyar at the 12th – beginning of the 13th centuries became the largest city of the Volgian Bulgaria, and that fact is confirmed by both disputing sides on the capital ...

Coining of the Golden Horde period (13-15 centuries)

Coining of the Golden Horde period (13-15 centuries)

About the author: Valentin Petrovich Lebedev, 21.10.1936. Higher education, physicist and engineer, Ph.D. at physics and Mathematics, senior research assistant. Honorable Chemist of the USSR, have medals of ‘“a Hundredth Lenin’s anniversary” and “Labor Veteran”. ...