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1 Ferding - Wolter von Plettenberg and Jasper Linde Riga, smooth shield, child to the left
| Issuer | Livonian Order and Archbishopric of Riga |
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| Year | 1518-1521 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Two heraldic shields occupy the central field: the dexter shield bearing a tree device within a wavy border, and the sinister shield with a wavy border and its left half shaded. Both shields are set upon a cross, with the date appearing above. The surrounding legend runs continuously without being divided into four sections by the cross arms, a characteristic feature of this joint coinage issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONET · ARCHEPIS · ET · MAG · LIV · 15 - Z0 (Translation: Moneta Archiepiscopus Et Magistri Livoniae Coin of the Archbishop (of Riga) and the Master of Livonia) |
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Wolter von Plettenberg, Landmeister of the Livonian Order, and Archbishop Jasper Linde jointly authorized this issue during a period when the two powers maintained an uneasy cooperative authority over Riga — a city that had spent most of the previous century in open conflict with one or both of them. The joint coinage was a practical political instrument, not a gesture of goodwill. Riga had only recently submitted to a negotiated settlement, and shared minting rights formalized a balance of power neither party fully trusted.
The "smooth shield" attribution distinguishes this die variant from shield types with decorative borders, a distinction tracked in Haljak's corpus for this series.