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1/2 Mark - Heinrich von Galen and Wilhelm von Brandenburg Riga, detached crosses
| Issuer | Livonia and Riga |
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| Year | 1553-1555 |
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| Currency | Schilling (1500-1561) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A quartered heraldic shield dominates the central field, displaying the combined arms of Wilhelm von Brandenburg as Archbishop of Riga and Margrave of Brandenburg. The shield is set within a continuous Latin legend that runs along the periphery of the flan, identifying Wilhelm's titles and dignities. The die work is characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Baltic hammered coinage, with the legend and shield rendered in a bold, slightly crude style. The fields are plain and unadorned beyond the central device and surrounding inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | WILHELM · D · G · ARC · E · RIGENS · MAR · D · BR · (Translation: Wilhelm Dei Gratia Archi Episcopus Rigensis Marchio De Brandenburgensis Wilhelm, with God`s grace, Arch-bishop of Riga and Margrave of Brandenburg) |
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