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| Issuer | Wallachia |
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| Year | 1377 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse lettering | ІѠВЛАДІСЛАВА ВОЄВА (Translation: Me, voivode Vladislav) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wallachia's earliest coinage emerged in the 1360s under Vladislav I (Vlaicu), who established the mint partly to assert political independence from Hungarian suzerainty — coins being one of the clearest signals a ruler could send about autonomous governance. The joint attribution to Radu I places this piece in the brief co-regency period, a transitional arrangement documented in Wallachian sources before Radu assumed sole rule. MBR#34 represents a relatively tight typological classification within a series where die cutting was inconsistent and flan preparation crude, making clean strikes genuinely uncommon.