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1 Ducat - Radu III cel Frumos mirrored arms
| Issuer | Wallachia |
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| Year | 1462-1475 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ IW PAДV · BOHBOДA · ГNb |
| Reverse description | A golden eagle displayed in profile, regardant to the sinister, perched atop a great helm facing left; a cross is depicted beneath the eagle's wing. The composition is rendered in the flat, linear style characteristic of late medieval Wallachian hammered coinage. A Cyrillic legend surrounds the design, identifying the voivode, introduced by a cross pattee. |
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Radu III — younger brother of Vlad III and installed as voivode by Ottoman backing after Vlad's 1462 campaign collapsed — ruled Wallachia through a period of near-constant political turbulence, alternating on the throne multiple times with Vlad himself. The "mirrored arms" variety of this issue reflects die-cutter inconsistency rather than intentional heraldic reversal, a known occurrence in Wallachian coinage of this period where workshop standards were loose and dies were sometimes engraved by hand without a reference template.
The MBR#264 cf. citation signals this piece does not fully conform to the type — worth noting when assessing attribution confidence.