The Silver Coins of “Prince Simeon’s People”: An Unknown Part of the Numismatics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania / Srebrne monety „ludu księcia Symeona” – nieznana część numizmatyki Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego

Abstract

The paper sheds light on the countermarked imitations of silver coins of the Jochid Khan Said-Ahmad II (1433–1452). The authors identified 38 punches that were used for countermarking, allowing us to say with confidence that the size of this countermarked issue was quite large. The countermarked imitations of the dangs of Said-Ahmad II have not previously been examined in the numismatic literature. This is due to the rarity of these coins, which were previously known only from occasional, single finds. Such countermarks have rarely been published on the pages of Internet numismatic forums and have received the conditional name of “inverted Allah”.