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1 Ducat - Vladislav I Type I
| Issuer | Wallachia |
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| Year | 1364-1377 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A golden eagle displayed in regardant posture, turning its head to the left over its shoulder, with a cross positioned beneath the right wing; the bird stands atop a great helm facing right, rendered in the heraldic tradition common to Wallachian medieval coinage. A single star appears in the right field. The Cyrillic retrograde legend is distributed around the device within the pearled border, characteristic of hammered issues of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vladislav I — also known as Vlaicu Vodă — issued these ducats following Wallachia's consolidation of control over the Danube trading routes, a position secured partly through his careful navigation between Hungarian suzerainty and Bulgarian alliances. The designation "Type I" within the MBR sequence reflects meaningful die variation across his reign, and the "var." attribution signals this piece diverges from the primary recorded type — likely in legend spelling, cross terminal form, or shield detail, distinctions that remain incompletely catalogued in the literature.
Vladislav I was the first Wallachian ruler to strike coins in his own name with any regularity.