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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaulTudor, post: 4567730, member: 103058&quot;]I want the first one too! I&#039;ve noticed that Solidus tend to auction moldavian/vallachian medieval coins quite often! The bull head on the coin is related to a legend saying that, Dragos the Founder adventured with his party, around 300 men, over the Carpathians, from Maramures to&nbsp; scout a new land. Apparently a bison/ auroch crossed path with them, so a hunt began, which resulted in the bison being arrowed whilst trying to cross a river. In this process, Dragos&#039;s dog, Molda, jumped in the water following the bison, but was carried away by the fast stream and died. As a result the river was named Moldavia and the region too, with the bull&#039;s head being used as a coat of arms since then. Stephan the Great was an interesting&nbsp; figure in Europe at that time and many of his coins were later melted, due to their high silver content , as far as i know.</p><p>I used to spend my summer holidays as a kid, swimming and fishing in that river! Also lived very close to the place where Stephan defeated Mathias Corvin and his Black Army(at least some of it),Baia and always tried to imagine how that winter battle looked like![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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