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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7793727, member: 84905"]I don't collect late Byzantine coins, so I can't contribute much. However, there is a certain overlap with my medieval Russian interest. So below I show a recent acquisition of mine. The coin was described as imitation of a Miliaresion of Nikephoros III., 1078-1081 in the auction catalog. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, one can be a bit more specific. These imitations were made at Tmutarakan, a trading town and Russian principality on the Taman peninsula between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1337931[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tmutarakan was originally called Samkerz. It was ruled by the Khazars in the 9th and 10th centuries. In the early 10th century a Byzantine source called Samkerz Tamatarha. This name was adopted into Russian as Tmutarakan after Prince Svyatoslav overthrew Khazar rule of Samkerz in 965.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tmutarakan was ruled by Svyatoslav and later his son Vladimir (Saint Vladimir) from Kiev. Around AD 1000 Vladimir installed one of his sons Prince Mstislav as ruler in Tmutarakan. After Mstislav's death in 1036, the principality of Tmutarakan passed to his nephew Svyatoslav (of Tmutarakan and Chernigov) and then to his son Oleg.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the Tmutarakan imitations were minted in copper and probably date to the time of Svyatoslav (ie. around 1050). My coin was minted in reasonably good silver and may be early. These coins are customarily assigned to the reign of Prince Mstislav (hence the cataloger was probably wrong when he identified a coin of Nikephoros III., 1078-1081 as model).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7793727, member: 84905"]I don't collect late Byzantine coins, so I can't contribute much. However, there is a certain overlap with my medieval Russian interest. So below I show a recent acquisition of mine. The coin was described as imitation of a Miliaresion of Nikephoros III., 1078-1081 in the auction catalog. However, one can be a bit more specific. These imitations were made at Tmutarakan, a trading town and Russian principality on the Taman peninsula between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. [ATTACH=full]1337931[/ATTACH] Tmutarakan was originally called Samkerz. It was ruled by the Khazars in the 9th and 10th centuries. In the early 10th century a Byzantine source called Samkerz Tamatarha. This name was adopted into Russian as Tmutarakan after Prince Svyatoslav overthrew Khazar rule of Samkerz in 965. Tmutarakan was ruled by Svyatoslav and later his son Vladimir (Saint Vladimir) from Kiev. Around AD 1000 Vladimir installed one of his sons Prince Mstislav as ruler in Tmutarakan. After Mstislav's death in 1036, the principality of Tmutarakan passed to his nephew Svyatoslav (of Tmutarakan and Chernigov) and then to his son Oleg. Most of the Tmutarakan imitations were minted in copper and probably date to the time of Svyatoslav (ie. around 1050). My coin was minted in reasonably good silver and may be early. These coins are customarily assigned to the reign of Prince Mstislav (hence the cataloger was probably wrong when he identified a coin of Nikephoros III., 1078-1081 as model).[/QUOTE]
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