AN 18TH CENTURY COIN FIND IN BULGARIA

A hoard of 854 silver and gold coins from the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe from the mid-18th century as well as jewelry have been discovered by archaeologists hidden in a treasure pot in late medieval ruins in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Ahtopol, the successor of the ancient and medieval city of Agathopolis.

The discovery was made inside the Late Antiquity and medieval fortress of Agathopolis during the excavations of Ottoman Era homes, archaeologist Andrey Aladzhov from the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia has revealed during a conference in Ahtopol.

The finding of the Ottoman Era treasure pot from the Late Antiquity and medieval fortress of Agathopolis in Southeast Bulgaria is the second archaeological discovery of this type on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast in 2018, after a treasure pot of Tatar plunder from ca. 1400, also containing both coins and jewelry, was discovered in the Kaliakra Fortress in August on Cape Kaliakra in Northeast Bulgaria.

A total of 851 of the Ottoman and Western European coins from the treasure pot discovered during the recent digs in Ahtopol are silver, and three are gold.

Most of the coins in question were minted by two rulers of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Mahmud I (r. 1730 – 1754), and his brother and successor, Sultan Osman III (r. 1754 – 1757),

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