title: Issuing Cast Lead Coins in Byzantine Cherson: A Local Phenomenon or a Technological “Flaw”?
abstract: Although the aspects of the production of Byzantine-Cherson cast coins and the technological nuances of their manufacture have been repeatedly studied in Russian scholarship, every time there appeared various hypotheses and assumptions, mostly remain highly debatable so far. For a long time, the lack or difficulties of access to the special equipment allowing the one to determine coin alloys allowed the researchers to draw conclusions about the coin material only against the background of some d
journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria