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Hroshyk - Mikhail Chartoryisky "Columns" Countermark Group V
| Issuer | Principality of Kyiv (Rus Principalities) |
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| Year | 1450-1460 |
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| Weight | 0.8 g |
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| Obverse description | Rectangular punched countermark applied to the host coin's obverse field, displaying a horizontal bar or table motif above an arrangement of four or two pellets (dots) in the field below. The countermark is characteristic of the so-called 'Columns' group associated with Mikhail Chartoryisky and is struck into the irregular flan of the underlying hroshyk. The surrounding field retains traces of the original host coin's design, partially obscured by the application of the countermark punch. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mikhail Chartoryisky governed Kyiv as a Lithuanian-appointed prince during the mid-fifteenth century, a period when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania exercised loose but assertive control over the old Rus principalities. The "Columns" countermark — the Gediminid dynastic symbol — stamped onto circulating hroshyky was less a monetary reform than a political assertion: local coinage brought under visible dynastic authority without the expense of a new issue.
Group V countermarks are distinguished by die characteristics documented in the Hankevych-Petrov corpus, placing this piece within a small cluster attributed specifically to Chartoryisky's administration rather than his predecessors.