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1/4 Thaler - Wilhelm von Fürstenberg Wenden
| Issuer | Livonian Order |
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| Year | 1558 |
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| Value | 1/4 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a quadripartite shield of scalloped outline, displaying the arms of the Livonian Order with a grid or latticed cross pattern across the four quarters. The shield is surmounted by the last two digits of the date, rendered as '·5·8·', positioned above the chief of the shield. The design is struck on an irregularly trimmed klippe planchet with a roughly octagonal outline, typical of emergency or siege coinage of the period. No surrounding legend is present; the heraldic device fills the available field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ·5·8· |
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Wilhelm von Fürstenberg served as Master of the Livonian Order during its final, desperate years — 1557 to 1559 — a period when the Order was militarily exhausted and politically fragmented ahead of the catastrophic Livonian War that would effectively dissolve it. This quarter thaler was struck just as Ivan the Terrible's forces were massing on the eastern frontier; the Order would suffer a decisive defeat at the Battle of Ergeme in 1560, and Fürstenberg himself was captured by Russian forces in 1560 at Fellin and died a prisoner in Yaroslavl.
Wenden, the mint city, served as the Order's administrative capital in present-day Cēsis, Latvia.