Prima coroană princiară medievală din aur descoperită pe teritoriul României (sec. al XIII-lea)
The first medieval gold crown prince discovered in Romania (13th century)

Summary/Abstract: Nearly the town of Râmnicul Vâlcea was found by chance in 1974 five fragments of a gold crown: rectangular plates (76 mm χ 55 mm) in gold, each surmounted by a fleur-de-lys - united by hinges. Only one of the fragments still retains a perforated surface of fine carving, representing a knight and two fantastic animals in the vegetal decoration. This fragment (total length 41 cm) of the crown bears striking resemblances to the crown of Saint Stanislas de Ploc (Poland), with the segments of the Hungarian crowns covering the cross of the Passion of Jesus of the Krakow dome.Numerous figures on the crown of Rimnicul Vlcea are similar to those of the various jewels of France, Bavaria, Sweden, Italy, Hungary. In the second half of the thirteenth-early fourteenth century, the crown of Rimnicul Vlcea may be dated: probably the sign of a local prince before the constitution of the united principality of Wallachia

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