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1 Groschen - Alexander II Cetatea Alba - Type II
| Issuer | Cetatea Albă, City of |
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| Year | 1449-1455 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic (medieval) |
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| Mintage | ND (1449-1455) |
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Cetatea Albă — known to the Genoese as Moncastro and to the Ottomans as Akkerman — occupied one of the most contested positions on the northwestern Black Sea coast, and its brief autonomous coinage under Alexander II reflects a moment when the city's governors still had room to maneuver between Moldavian suzerainty and increasing Ottoman pressure. The brass composition is notable: most Moldavian municipal issues of this period were struck in silver, however debased.