Note on the Stizhok hoard (Ukraine). Coins with Asprokastron countermarks and Wallachian ducats - Studii şi Cercetări de Numismatică est la seule publication de numismatique de l'Académie RoumaineстатьяИсследовательская статья
Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 4 августа 2021 г.
Аннотация:The Stizhok Hoard is one of the largest deposits of silver money struck in the XIV-XV centuries, recently discovered within the historical boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A clay pot found in 2011 near the western Ukrainian village of Stizhok contained around 2.500 silver coins. The hoarded money had been struck in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia – Czech Kingdom, the Principality of Wallachia, the Principality of Moldavia, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde, Genoese colony of Caffa, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire. Some Oriental coins in the Stizhok Hoard had different types of countermarks, three in total. That demonstrates a widespread countermarking in the Golden Horde, the medieval Principality of Moldavia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The coins struck in different countries make the treasure a unique encyclopaedia of the Late Middle Ages. We can take a look at the complicated monetary markets and international trade in Europe involving the Italian colonies on the Black Sea coast, investigate the influence of the Golden Horde and Crimean Tatar currencies on the markets in Eastern Europe, reveal the specifics of penetration of Prague groschen as well as Moldavian and Wallachian coins into the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, describe the peculiarities of silver coins countermarking in the XIV – mid XV centuries. These hoarded coins are an essential part of economic history for Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Moldova, Italy, Turkey and Crimea. Keywords: the Stizhok Hoard, money in the XV century, medieval Eastern and Central Europe, Oriental numismatics, Wallachian ducats, Golden Horde countermark “Khan”, Moldavian “Asprokastron” countermark of Greek cross between four roundles, Lithuanian countermark of Gediminas Column with four roundles
