1 Groschen - Alexander II Cetatea Alba - Type I

Cetatea Albă — known in antiquity as Akkerman and earlier as Miletus' colony Tyras — occupied a strategic position on the Dniester estuary that made it perpetually contested. Under Alexander II's tenure the city operated with enough autonomy to strike its own municipal coinage, a privilege rooted in Moldavian political arrangements that allowed major commercial centers to issue low-denomination currency for local trade. The brass composition places this firmly in the utility tier of the monetary system, not the prestige tier.

Type I designation in MBR#573 implies at least one subsequent die variant exists within the series.