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1 Ferding - Heinrich von Galen Reval, simple shield
| Issuer | Livonian Order |
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| Year | 1553-1557 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | HINR : DE : GALEN : MA : LIV : |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Heinrich von Galen served as Master of the Livonian Order from 1551 until his death in 1557, presiding over a confederation already fracturing under the pressure of Russian expansionism. Ivan IV's forces had been probing Livonian borders for years before the full invasion of 1558, and this ferding circulated in a polity that would cease to exist within a decade of its striking. Reval — present-day Tallinn — operated as one of the Order's key minting centers precisely because of its Hanseatic commercial weight.
The "simple shield" designation distinguishes this type from the more elaborate armorial variants in the same series, a distinction that matters for attribution against Haljak's typology.