1323, Bulgaria (2nd Empire), Mihail Asen III Sisman. Silver Gros Coin. NGC AU+

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1323, Bulgaria (2nd Empire), Mihail Asen III Sisman. Silver Gros Coin. NGC AU+
Mint Year: 1893
Denomination: Gros
Mint Period: 1323-1330
Mint Place: Veliko Turnovo
Reference: Youroukova & Penchev 64.
Condition:
Certified and graded by NGC as AU (Details: Environmental Damage!)
Diameter: 22mm
Weight: 1.6gm
Material: Silver
Obverse:
Mihail Asen facing on horseback right, holding cross-tipped scepter.  "MX" with macron above, "(ЦР)Ь" above horse's head..
Reverse:
Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing. Christogramm (IC-XC) across field.
Tsar
, also spelled
czar
,
tzar
, or
csar
, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe, originally the Bulgarian monarchs from 10th century onwards,[
citation needed
] much later a title for two rulers of the Serbian Empire,  and from 1547 the supreme ruler of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire.[
citation needed
] In this last capacity it lends its name to a system of government, tsarist autocracy or tsarism. The term is derived from the Latin word caesar, which was intended to mean "emperor" in the European medieval sense of the term—a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch)—but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in-between a royal and imperial rank.
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Michael Asen III
(Bulgarian:
Михаил Асен III
,
Mihail Asen III
, commonly called
Michael Shishman
(Михаил Шишман,
Mihail Šišman
)), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria from 1323 to 1330. The exact year of his birth is unknown but it was between 1280 and 1292. He was the founder of the last ruling dynasty of the Second Bulgarian Empire, the Shishman dynasty. After he was crowned, however, Michael used the name Asen to emphasize his connection with the Asen dynasty, the first one to rule over the Second Empire.
An energetic and ambitious ruler, Michael Shishman led an aggressive but opportunistic and inconsistent foreign policy against the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia, which ended in the disastrous battle of Velbazhd which claimed his own life. He was the last medieval Bulgarian ruler who aimed at military and political hegemony of the Bulgarian Empire over the Balkans and the last one who attempted to seize Constantinople. He was succeeded by his son Ivan Stephen and later by his nephew Ivan Alexander, who reversed his policy by forming an alliance with Serbia.
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