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1 Ban - Vlad III Țepeș
| Issuer | Wallachia |
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| Year | 1456-1462 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) depicted standing atop a closed helmet, body facing left with the head turned to the right, holding a cross in its beak. A comet device appears in the sinister (left) field. The composition is characteristic of late medieval Wallachian heraldic coinage, struck on a small, irregularly shaped flan with corresponding weak areas typical of the hammered technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vlad III's coinage was issued during his second reign, the period from which his reputation — and notoriety in Ottoman diplomatic records — derives almost entirely. The ban was the smallest Wallachian denomination, struck in such negligible silver that most examples were produced from heavily debased flans. Few survive outside major European institutional collections.