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1 Hvid - Christian I Visby, ram walking right

Issuer Gotland
Year 1455-1481
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Weight 0.77 g
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Obverse description Central field occupied by a heraldic shield bearing a horizontal band, enclosed within a circular legend in uncial Latin lettering. The shield is rendered in the medieval Gothic style typical of Gotlandic coinage of the mid-to-late fifteenth century. The surrounding inscription runs continuously around the periphery of the flan. The overall strike is characteristic of hand-hammered production, resulting in some weakness and irregularity across the surface.
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Obverse lettering WIS · WISBVNENCIS
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Gotland's monetary situation during Christian I's reign was tangled. The island had long maintained semi-autonomous minting rights under successive overlords, and the Visby mint continued striking its own hvid coinage even as Danish royal authority over Gotland remained contested following the 1449–1451 succession disputes. Christian never fully stabilized his finances — he pawned Iceland to Scotland in 1468 and Orkney and Shetland in 1469 — and peripheral mints like Visby operated with considerable independence as a result.

Hauberg 95 is among the more elusive attributions in the Gotlandic series.

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