Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 110092, member: 4910&quot;]<b>King Khan Krum Kills Kitty (Bulgaria)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Bulgaria 10 Leva 1930</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/bulgaria_lion_1930.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This Bulgaria 1930 10 Leva coin shows &quot;The Madara Horseman&quot;, &quot;Krum&quot; in the Cyrillic alphabet, and the date &quot;814&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;horseman&quot; is a rock relief carved into a vertical cliff face depicting a life-size horseman, a lion, and a dog. It is located in northeast Bulgaria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before World War 2, the common belief was that the horseman was Khan Krum who ruled Bulgaria from 804 - 815 AD. In fact, a Bulgarian coin was minted in the 1930&#039;s with a picture of the relief credited to Khan Krum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many investigations later, a leading Bulgarian archaeologist, Vesilin Besheliev, determined the age of the relief at 705 AD, almost 100 years before Khan Krum.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The wrong king got credit on this coin.</b></p><p>I guess this makes it an &quot;error coin&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in