Medieval west European coins from the excavations in the Sofiyskaya storona of Veliky Novgorod in 2019 (the excavation pit on Litvinova-Lukina Str., building 5)

The paper publishes an assemblage of medieval coins retrieved during the excavations in the Sofiyskaya Storona of Veliky Novgorod in 2019. The article provides information on discovered and attributed West European denarii as well as their imitations. The finds of such coins during archaeological excavations in Novgorod are rather frequent. Most published coins are attributed to well-known types of Germanic denarii of the middle - second half of the 11th century. The majority of the attributed coins came from the mints of Northern Lotharingia. Previously, a special role played by the coinage minted in Northern Lotharingia in the money circulation in Medieval Rus was emphasized repeatedly by other scholars. Along with genuine denarii, the assemblage also contains imitations. Employing a typological analysis, the author suggests possible prototypes for some imitations. The results of X-ray fluorescence analysis published in the paper have greatly added to our knowledge of both genuine denarii and their imitations. The published assemblage of coins reflects a general pattern of circulation of money in Veliky Novgorod and its vicinities in the 11th century.