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Trachy Bulgarian imitation of type of Isaac II
| Issuer | Second Bulgarian Empire |
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| Year | 1186-1196 |
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| Currency | Grosh (1185-1396) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1186-1196) |
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When Isaac II Angelos reclaimed Constantinople in 1185 and drove back the Norman occupation, he almost immediately faced a new threat: the Vlach-Bulgarian uprising led by the brothers Asen and Peter, which broke into open revolt that same year. The Second Bulgarian Empire — re-established in the chaos — lacked a functioning mint tradition and instead struck crude imitative trachea, borrowing Byzantine types wholesale. This piece copies Isaac's own coinage, an act of calculated ambiguity that let the new Tarnovo state circulate money without requiring an entirely new monetary infrastructure.