Emblem of  Vasile Ursu Nicola (known as Horea or Horia), leader of an eponymous peasant rebellion in Habsburg Transylvania, 1784; with the title Rex Daciæ ("King of Dacia"). One of several contemporary renditions of the "Horea medals" in 18th- and 19th-century media, reproduced or described in Ioan C. Băcilă, "Portretele lui Horia, Cloșca și Crișan", in Transilvania, Vol. LIII, Issue 1, January 1922, pp. 22–23, 29–31, 46, 48–52, 60–61; and Paula Virag, "'Horea – Rex Daciae' – Considerations on the Numismatic Symbols of the Peasants' Uprising of 1784-1785", in Acta Mvsei Napocensis. Series Historica, Vol. 52, Issue II, 2015, pp. 81–89. Some are believed to have been minted on Horea's orders, others are satirical depictions by his adversaries. Most contain either a variation of the triple cross or a heart-and-dagger, often both (as is the case here); even though Horea was an Orthodox, the symbols evidence a Catholic influence, probably because of being selected by an unknown Catholic designer, rather than by Horea (see Virag).
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