Das altbulgarische Geldwesen

Abstract

After the end of the western empire in 476 the east Roman coinage gained ever greater influence on the money of Europe. The Byzantine system proper begins with Anastasius: coin was struck in gold, silver and copper, though silver remained rare. The gold coin is the solidus created by Constantine in 312, and throughout the Middle Ages the Byzantine solidus was the only gold coin of European trade, until the Italian gold coins joined it in the thirteenth century. The history of the Proto-Bulgarians is still little known; the paper traces it from the list of princes and the Byzantine sources, from the division into Utigurs and Kutrigurs through the unification under Kubrat to the partition of the realm among his five sons, and then treats the money of the early Bulgarian state.

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Suggested citation

Nedeltschev, Kiril: Das altbulgarische Geldwesen. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 18 (1968), pp. 139–144, Tf.14.

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