1 Groschen - Stephen III Type IIa

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.