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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8247467, member: 84905&quot;]With all the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, I thought I post a coin from my collection from that region, which I am sure hardly anyone here will have seen before. The coin is a Polu-Grosh (half-Grosh) of the principality of Podolsk under Prince Constantine Koriatovich. It was minted at the town/castle of Smotrich in around 1380.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is another variety with an eagle head on the reverse. Both types are exceedingly rare and practically unavailable to western collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: MONETA CONSTANTINI</p><p>Rev: +DVCIS H(EREDIS ЕТ) DOMINI DE SMOTRIC</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452510[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1362, four Koriatovich brothers: Alexander, Yuri , Konstantin and Fyodor participated in the army of Grand Duke Olgerd in the Battle of Blue Waters, where the Lithuanians defeated the Golden Horde and conquered Kiev.</p><p><br /></p><p>For their support, in 1363 the principality of Podolsk was created and granted to the brothers as co-rulers, with Konstantin ruling over Smotrich. The Koriatovich brothers built a number of large fortresses, and established a Catholic Diocese at Kamenets. In 1377 a wooden Catholic cathedral was built in the center of the city. Around 1390 the Order of the Franciscans appeared in Kamenets. Gradually, the city became an outpost of Catholicism in the south-west of Russia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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