As financial collapse had marked the history of Moldavia for several decades running, Dabija is noted for re-introducing the
mint in
Suceava from his first year of rule. Previous large-scale
inflation and
devaluation had made Moldavian
currency undesirable, so the state had to resort to issuing
counterfeit coinage, mainly
Swedish and
Livonian
shillings and
riksdalers. Produced with the assistance of
Polish mintmaster
Tito Livio Burattini, the imitations are, usually, of extremely poor quality. The only proper monetary issue of his rule are the
şalăi (in sources that use
Latin, they are referred to as
solidi), the smallest coin on the market. Eustratie Dabija assisted the
Ottomans during two of their campaigns into
Transdanubia against the
Habsburgs, in 1663 and 1664. He was the step-father of
Anastasiya Dabizha. He was the father of Maria Dabizha. Her family married her to a rising politician of the country, Iordache
Rosetti, But Maria died in a few years after the wedding.
Mihai Eminescu's poem,
Umbra lui Istrate Dabija - Voievod ("Prince Istrate Dabija's shadow"), presents the image of an
inebriated and jovial leader ruling over an isolated and
bucolic country. ==References==