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1 Groschen - Stephen III Type IIa
| Issuer | Moldavia |
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| Year | 1457-1504 |
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| Reference(s) | MBR#630 |
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| Reverse lettering | *MONETA MOLDAVIE (Translation: Coin of Moldavia) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Stephen III ruled Moldavia for 47 years and fought over 36 battles, many against the Ottoman Empire, earning a posthumous sainthood from the Eastern Orthodox Church. His groschen coinage underwent multiple type revisions across that long reign, and the Type IIa classification places this issue within a specific emission sequence that numismatists continue to refine — MBR remains the primary reference, though attributions at the sub-type level still generate disagreement among specialists. The light weight reflects the chronic silver shortages that plagued Moldavian minting throughout the second half of the fifteenth century.