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1 Pfennig - Dietrich III Resler
| Issuer | Bishopric of Dorpat |
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| Year | 1426-1441 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a crossed sword and key in saltire, the episcopal symbols of the Bishopric of Dorpat, rendered in low relief on an irregularly shaped billon flan. The sword and key are characteristic attributes of the see, referencing Saint Paul (sword) and Saint Peter (key) as patron saints. A surrounding circular legend in uncial Latin characters reads MOnETA · TARB ·, identifying this as a coin of Dorpat (Tartu). The strike is typical of hand-hammered medieval minor coinage, with variable centering and partial legend visibility. Surface shows heavy circulation wear and billon oxidation consistent with the fifteenth-century dating. |
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Dorpat (modern Tartu, Estonia) was a Livonian bishopric caught perpetually between the competing pressures of the Teutonic Order and the merchant ambitions of the Hanseatic League. Dietrich III Resler held the see from 1413 to 1441, and his small billon issues circulated in a regional economy where silver was chronically scarce — billon being the practical compromise between commodity value and minting necessity.
Haljak II#539 is among the thinner documented types of the Resler episcopate.