1 Ducat - Vladislav I Type IIIa

Vladislav I — also known as Vlaicu Vodă — was among the first Wallachian rulers to issue a systematic coinage, doing so in deliberate imitation of contemporary Hungarian ducats and Venetian grossi circulating through the region's trade routes. The "ducat" designation here is a misnomer of later cataloguers; these are silver pieces, not gold, reflecting Wallachia's position as a commercial tributary rather than an issuing power on par with its neighbors.

Type IIIa within the MBR sequence represents a refined emission, distinguished from earlier types by subtle die characteristics that specialists continue to debate. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce — Wallachian medieval silver rarely stayed in the ground long enough to avoid remelting.