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1 Örtug Visby, type 45
| Issuer | City of Visby |
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| Year | 1420-1440 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | WISBYCENSIS (Translation: of Visby.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Visby's municipal coinage from this period reflects a city in sharp political decline. Once the dominant Baltic trading hub under Hanseatic primacy, Visby had been sacked by Valdemar IV of Denmark in 1361 — losing much of its merchant population and its grip on regional commerce. The örtug issues of the early fifteenth century were struck by a city still nominally functioning as a trading center but operating well within the shadow of its former influence.
Type distinctions within the Visby örtug series hinge largely on die-cut shield variants and letter forms, making attribution to specific emission periods genuinely difficult without reference to Lagerqvist's Swedish medieval coin typology.