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CHERVEN, BULGARIA—The Sofia Globe reports that a gold coin dated to the thirteenth century A.D. has been found in northeastern Bulgaria, at the site of the medieval fortress of Cherven. Known as a perpera, the coin was minted during the rule of John III Doukas Vatatzes, who was Emperor of Nicaea from 1222 to 1254. Researchers from Bulgaria’s Rousse Regional Museum of History said that the coin was recovered at the foot of a wall on the western end of the fortress. This section of wall was constructed shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Cherven in 1388. To read about a fragment of an ivory icon found at a Byzantine fortress in southeastern Bulgaria, go to "Iconic Discovery."
