Abstract: This article presents a model of the money circulation in Bulgaria, based on the data about coins, excavated in Bulgaria and published in the Proceedings of the (Bulgarian) Archaeological Society (PAS) during the period 1910-1920 and in the Proceedings of the (Bulgarian) Archaeological Institute (PAI) during the period 1921-1959. We construct the Chronological Distribution of these coins and its graph using computer technology (the package MS Excel in our case). The studied material consists of over 280000 coins, which in our view is large enough to give an adequate picture in a first approximation of the chronological distribution of all coins excavated in the Bulgarian lands during the period 1910-1959. We think that it also gives a plausible picture of the monetary circulation in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula during the different historical periods. We discuss some considerable anomalies of the obtained chronological distribution. The results of the analysis juxtaposed with a peculiarity of the Chronological Distribution of Byzantine coins noticed by A. Kazhdan leads us to the hypothesis that there are probably certain mistakes in the accepted dating of some ancient coins.

Keywords: model; money circulation; coin finds; chronological distribution

ACM Classification Keywords: I.6 Simulation and Modeling, I.6.3 Applications

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MODEL OF THE MONEY CIRCULATION IN THE BULGARIAN LANDS DURING THE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Jordan Tabov

http://www.foibg.com/ijima/vol03/ijima03-04-p02.pdf