1/2 Mark - Jan Chodkiewicz Dole Castle

Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz governed Livonia as Lithuanian starosta during one of the most unstable periods in the territory's history — caught between Muscovite pressure from the east and the competing claims of Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, and Denmark following the collapse of the Livonian Confederation in 1561. Coins struck at Dole Castle under his authority represent a brief window of semi-autonomous Lithuanian administration before the region was more firmly absorbed into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Dole, a fortified island position on the Daugava south of Riga, served as Chodkiewicz's administrative seat. Its mint output was limited and the series is genuinely scarce — Haljak's corpus documents very few die pairings for this denomination.