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Biggest Stash of Byzantine Coins Ever Found in Macedonia

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The Balkan's Traveller reports on a major discovery of Byzantine and Venetian coins at Skopje Fortress

 

13 May 2010 | The landfill with coins recently discovered at the Skopje Fortress is the biggest repository of Byzantine gold and silver coins ever discovered on the territory of Macedonia, archaeologists told national media today.

 

In the chest, archaeologists found 44 gold coins and 76 Venetian coins, dating to the thirteenth century, or the Byzantine Era.

 

This is the most significant archaeological find at the Skopje Fortress, along with the Medieval lead stamps that were discovered several years ago at the site, Pasko Kuzman, archaeologist and Director of Cultural Heritage Protection in the Macedonian Ministry of Culture, told the Vreme newspaper.......

 

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The Balkan's Traveller reports on a major discovery of Byzantine and Venetian coins at Skopje Fortress

 

Nice post. Thank you. I guess this hoard reflects the (not always friendly) rivalry between two of the superpowers of the age: a decaying Byzantine Empire and a growing Venetian Empire. Soon, both these empires would face their greatest enemy, the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantine Empire would eventually fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Venetian Empire would survive its struggles with the Ottoman Empire, but would be critically weakened.

 

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