Catalog
1 Mark - Eric XIV
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1561-1562 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Mint | Reval Mint |
| Mintage | 1561 - - 1561 - (15)61 - 1562 - (15)6Z - 1562 - 156Z - |
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Reval (modern Tallinn) struck these marks during a narrow window of political crisis: the city submitted to Swedish suzerainty under Eric XIV in 1561 as the Livonian Confederation collapsed under Muscovite pressure during the Livonian War. The coinage was a practical declaration of allegiance, issued while Ivan the Terrible's forces were actively dismantling the regional order that had governed the eastern Baltic for over three centuries.
Production ceased by 1562, giving the type a lifespan of barely two years under Eric's authority before Swedish administrative consolidation rendered independent Reval municipal coinage obsolete.