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Trachy Imitation trachy of Isaac II Angelos
| Issuer | Second Bulgarian Empire |
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| Year | 1200-1202 |
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| Technique | Hammered (scyphate) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | MP ΘV |
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Isaac II Angelos was deposed, blinded, and imprisoned by his own brother Alexios III in 1195. The Bulgarian imitations of his trachy coinage began circulating shortly after, issued under Kaloyan — a ruler who had spent years extracting diplomatic recognition from Rome and Constantinople simultaneously. That these coins mimic Byzantine types so closely was deliberate: Bulgaria lacked the monetary infrastructure to assert a wholly independent numismatic identity, and Byzantine-style currency carried transactional legitimacy across the Balkans that purely Bulgarian issues would not.
Radoměrský's 1953 identification of this type remains the foundational reference; Bulgarian imitative trachea from this narrow window are genuinely scarce in Western collections.