1 Ducat - Vladislav I Type IIa

Vladislav I — known also as Vlaicu Vodă — was among the first Wallachian rulers to issue a systematic coinage, doing so partly to assert political independence from Hungary and to facilitate trade along the Danube corridor. The "Ducat" designation here is a misnomer rooted in later cataloging convention; these were silver pieces modeled loosely on contemporary Balkan and Hungarian types, not Venetian gold ducats. The MBR#5 variety classification reflects meaningful die differences within a series whose short production window and thin surviving population make precise attribution genuinely difficult.