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1 Ferding - Heinrich von Galen Wenden
| Issuer | Livonian Order |
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| Year | 1556 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | HEINRIG · V · GALEN · MEISTER · DES (Translation: Heinrich Von Galen Magistri Des Heinrich von Galen, Master of) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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 had been systematically probing the Order's eastern borders throughout the 1550s, and the tributes and diplomatic arrangements that had kept Muscovite aggression at bay were visibly collapsing. This ferding was struck at Wenden — the Order's administrative seat in modern-day Cēsis, Latvia — just two years before the catastrophic outbreak of the Livonian War in 1558 ended the Order's independent coinage entirely.