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1 Pfennig - Bernd von der Borch Wenden
| Issuer | Livonian Order |
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| Year | 1471-1483 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig = ⅓ Schilling |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRI · LIVONIE · (Translation: Magistri Livoniae Master of Livonia) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bernd von der Borch served as Master of the Livonian Order during a period of near-constant friction with the Archbishop of Riga — a rivalry that at times broke into open armed conflict. Small billon pfennigs of this type circulated through the trading towns of the eastern Baltic at a moment when the Order's political authority was being contested from multiple directions simultaneously, including pressure from the growing influence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the south.
The Federation reference 444 places this among the catalogued Livonian bracteate-derived small coinage. At 0.33g, losses through clipping and wear were nearly irreversible — survivors in identifiable condition are genuinely scarce.