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1 Ducat - Vladislav I Type I
| Issuer | Wallachia |
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| Year | 1364-1377 |
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| Currency | Ducat (1364-1714) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a quartered heraldic shield displaying the arms of Wallachia, surmounted by a small cross pattée. The shield is set within a beaded inner circle, with a Cyrillic legend surrounding it in the outer field reading the voivodal title and name of Vladislav I. The overall design reflects the Byzantine-influenced heraldic style characteristic of 14th-century Wallachian coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a standing full-length figure, likely a representation of Saint John the Baptist or a voivodal figure, shown facing, wearing robes and holding an attribute. The figure is rendered in a schematic, Byzantine-influenced style typical of medieval Wallachian hammered coinage. A small 'aN' monogram appears in the field to the right of the figure. The design is enclosed within a beaded circle, with a Cyrillic peripheral legend naming the issuer. |
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Vladislav I — also known as Vlaicu Vodă — began issuing ducats in imitation of the Venetian zecchino, a deliberate move to integrate Wallachian trade into the broader European mercantile network at a moment when the principality was navigating competing pressures from Hungary and the Ottoman periphery. The MBR#4 var. designation points to die variation within an already poorly documented series; Wallachian coinage of this period survives in very small numbers, and attribution between varieties remains contested among specialists.
This is among the earliest gold coinage struck in any Romanian-speaking principality.