1 Pfennig - Heinrich von Galen Reval

Heinrich von Galen served as Master of the Livonian Order from 1551 until his death in 1557, ruling during the increasingly desperate final years of the Order's grip on the eastern Baltic. By the mid-1550s, the Livonian confederation was fracturing under pressure from Muscovy to the east and the growing ambitions of Lithuania and Sweden. This pfennig belongs to a coinage tradition that was fundamentally practical — small billon issues circulated across Reval and the surrounding trading networks that had made the region wealthy under Hanseatic commerce.

Haljak remains the authoritative reference for Baltic medieval coinage, and the II#174 attribution places this squarely within a well-documented but thinly surviving series.