About the Silver of the Old Rus Coins
Abstract
In the article the problem of silver content of Old Rus coins of princes Vladimir (980—1015) and Sviatopolk (1015—1019) is examined. The analysis of certain part of coins indicates, that the content of silver in them was between 300/1000 and 960/1000, but there are also prevailing samples made on basis with a small quantity of silver alloy. The author adheres to the version about conections between silver of Old Rus coins with low-quality kufic dirhams of the end of the 10 — beginning of the 11 century and also numerous groups of European and Byzantine coins. The coins of different silver purity were brought to Rus and were the main source for the Old Rus coins production. The composition of metal of foreign coins in different areas of the Old Rus, at the turn of the 10—11 centuries, was various. For the Old Rus coins manufacturing there was used well-quality silver of 900—960/1000 as well as alloys with high concentrations of copper and other metals. The silver content of Old Rus coins was a result of many other low- and high-quality coins remelting.
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