KINGDOM OF WALLACHIA MIRCEA THE OLD 1386-1418 GFATHER OF DRACULA AR DENIER SHARP

Description: KINGDOM OF WALLACHIA MIRCEA THE OLD 1386-1418 GRANDFATHER OF DRACULA (VLAD THE IMPALER) AR DENIER 14mm .61gm 5h SHARP STRIKE; NONE WITH CLEARER LEGEND OR KING THAT I'VE SEENEX ELSEN 2002OBV: IWM DVAB (IO MIRCEA VOEVOD IN CYRILLIC SCRIPT) MIRCEA STANDS FACING WITH STAFF AND GLOBUS CRUCIGER REF: IWN DVAB EAGLE WITH CROSS PERCHED ON HELMET (CREST OF BASSARABA FAMILY OF WALLACHIA)FREE SHIPPING, NO RETURNS Mircea, born the son of Radu I and an unknown woman, was the King of Wallachia from 1386-1418. He was father to Vlad II Dracul and grandfather to Vlad III Dracula (The Impaler). Mircea brought economic and political stability to the Kingdom of Wallachia, bordering the Black Sea and situated between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. He was considered to be the ‘bravest and ablest of the Christian Princes’ and he ruled well for 32 years.Vlad II or Vlad Dracul, Mircea’s son, reigned from 1436-47. He received his surname in 1431 after being inducted into the Order of the Dragon. In 1433, Vlaszlo I, King of Poland, launched the Varna Campaign against the Ottoman Empire to drive the Turks out of Europe. Vlad became known as 'the Impaler' because he famously impaled his victims on stakes for his enemies to view (with their leaders on taller ones). Vlaszlo’s commander, Hunyadi, demanded Vlad join him but he declined. His son, Mircea II, temporarily took the throne from him in 1442 but Vlad got it back the next year. Pope Eugene IV absolved him from the Varna Campaign, but asked he send his son, which he didn’t comply with. The Christian army was destroyed at the battle in 1444. In 1447, Hunyadi rebelled against Vlad and his son, and they were both killed. Only 8 coins have surfaced that can be attributed to Vlad Dracul, one of which can be viewed in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection on-line.Vlad III (The Impaler aka Count Dracula) was born in 1431 and reigned on and off from 1456-62 during the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans and is considered a folk hero in Romania. Three years after the Fall of Constantinople (1453) to Mehmed II, Hungary was threatened by the Siege of Belgrade and Hunyadi began a counterattack against the Ottomans in Serbia before dying of the plague. Vlad III led his own attack into Wallachia and re-conquered his homeland. Stories of his cruel reputation went down in history. The Ottomans sent envoys to collect tribute (tax) and when they didn’t lift their hats as he passed by, he had the hats nailed on their heads and the bodies returned to Mehmed. He ambushed 1000 Turks at Giurgiu and impaled them on stakes, with the highest stake reserved for their commander. Vlad used up all of his riches to fight his wars and when he travelled to Hungary to ask for assistance by Corvinus he was arrested jailed for 12 years. When Radu died suddenly in 1476, Vlad declared his 3rd reign but was assassinated after only 2 months. No coins of Vlad are known to exist.WALLACHIA OR THE ROMANIAN COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED AS A PRINCIPALITY IN THE EARLY 14TH CENTURY BY BASARAB I AFTER HE REBELLED AGAINST CHARLES I OF HUNGARY BUT THE TERRITORY WAS 1ST MENTIONED IN 1246 IN A CHARTER BY BELA IV OF HUNGARY. IN 1417, WALLACHIA WAS FORCED TO ACCEPT THE SUZERAINTY OF THE OTTOMANS UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY WHEN IT UNITED WITH MOLDAVIA TO FORM THE UNITED PRINCIPALITIES AND OFFICIALLY BECAME THE KINGDOM OF ROMANIA IN 1881

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Location: Glendale Heights, Illinois

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