1 Ducat - Vladislav I Type I

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 script	Cyrillic
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Additional information	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.