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1 Ducat - Ioan Iacob Heraclid
| Issuer | Moldavia |
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| Year | 1563 |
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| Weight | 3.55 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1563 |
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Ioan Iacob Heraclid — known as Despot Vodă — seized the Moldavian throne in 1561 with Habsbur and Polish backing, presenting himself as a Greek nobleman of ancient lineage, a claim almost certainly fabricated. His two-year reign was an anomaly: a Protestant ruler in an Orthodox principality, entertaining humanist scholars and Lutheran reformers at his court in Iași. The ducats he struck were modeled on Western coinage conventions, an deliberate signal to his European patrons rather than his subjects.
He was killed in a boyar uprising in November 1563, the same year this coin was struck.