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Real Life Dracula: Vlad the Impaler & the Order of the Dragon (mini)
Description
The Dracula character in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel is based on a real person—the Transylvanian prince Vlad III—and actual historical events. In the aftermath of 1389’s disastrous Battle of Kosovo Field, Sigismund of Luxembourg, the King of Hungary and Croatia, established his reputation. In 1408, he created a secret society devoted to repulsing the Turks: the Order of the Dragon. One of its members was the Prince of Wallachia, in Transylvania: Vlad II. When Vlad II joined the Order in 1431, he was given a new patrymic: Dracul, the Romanian word for dragon. Thus, his son Vlad III known as Son of the Dragon—or Dracula.--This silver parvus was minted during the reign of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387-1427), founder of the Order of the Dragon. The Crusader cross on the reverse was a symbol often used by Order members. Vlad III Dracula never minted his own coins—which only enhanced the myth that silver is harmful to vampires.
Packaging: mini album.
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