title: Counterfeit Late-sixteenth-century Tyrolean Thaler from the South-eastern Crimea
abstract: This article discusses a counterfeit Tyrolean thaler of the Erzherzog Ferdinand of Austria (1564–1595) minted in the period contemporary to him and discovered in the south-eastern Crimea (in the environs of the modern village of Grushevka, Sudak administrative area). This is high-quality counterfeit of a large-denomination European coin, made with a unique technology of soldering silver plates onto a base metal blank. Along with other counterfeits and authentic examples of foreign coins discover
journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria