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1446, Wallachia, Vladislav II. Nice Medieval Silver Ducat Coin. About XF!

Reference: MBR 257. Denomination: Silver Ducat Mint Period: 1446-1456 AD Ruler (Great Voivod): Vladislav II. (1446-1448 and 1448-1456). Condition: Struck on a slightly irregular planchet which has a mint-made planchet split at 3 o'clock, otherwise about XF! Diameter: 14mm Weight:  0.44gm Material: Silver

Obverse: Split shield with coat of arms (three bars / crescent above star) of the Basarab family inside an inner pearl circle. Legend: Iω BΛЯДICΛЯ BOIBOДГNb

Reverse: Walachian coat of arms - mountain eagle with a cross perched on stylized plummed helmet. Legend:  + Iω BΛЯДHCΛЯ BOHД

Vladislav II (died c. August 20, 1456) was a Voivode or ruler of the principality of Wallachia, from 1447 to 1448, and again from 1448 to 1456. The way Vladislav II came to the throne is debatable. The most accepted view is that Vladislav assassinated Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and was subsequently placed on the throne by John Hunyadi,[1] on the other, Vladislav II was helped by the Ottomans to replace Dan III which was assigned by the Hungarians.

It is not known if Vladislav II had been invited to take part in the Battle of Kosovo (1448) or not. It is certain however that he didn't send any troops in aid and as a result, John Hunyadi took back the Transylvanian possessions of Făgăraș and Amlaș on 23 April 1452. Vladislav retaliated by embargoing all Wallachian trade to Brasov county, then part of Hunyadi's Transylvania. However, on 15 November 1455, after Hunyadi informed the people of Brasov that the embargo would be lifted, Vladislav seized back Transylvanian possessions, and attacked the Făgăraș fortress and in the process burns a few Saxon villages. In response, Hunyadi gives Vlad III; a son of the rival Drăculești house of Basarab (the future Vlad the Impaler) military support and, with the help of the Saxons whose villages were burned down, disposed Vladislav II.

On August 20, 1456, Vlad II Dracul's son, Vlad III Dracula killed Vladislav in hand-to-hand combat. Although Vladislav's gravestone is marked August 22, 1456, that was the date of the engraving. He was not buried at the Snagov Monastery which he founded, instead, he was buried at the Dealu Monastery.

Vladislav founded the Snagov Monastery in 1453 where a wooden sculpted door was preserved to this day and it is exhibited at the Religious Art Museum of Bucharest. At Mount Athos in 1450, Vladislav gave Koutloumousiou Monastery a charter and gave a gift of 10000 Akçet to the St. Elijah Skit.