1 Pfennig - Wolter von Plettenberg and Jasper Linde Riga, one shield, bumpy bottom

Wolter von Plettenberg's tenure as Landmaster of the Livonian Order from 1494 to 1535 coincided with the most acute phase of the Russian threat to the eastern Baltic — his victory at Smolina in 1502 temporarily halted Muscovite expansion and bought the Order roughly two decades of relative stability, the precise window in which this joint coinage with Archbishop Jasper Linde was produced. The dual-authority arrangement behind these issues reflected a long-running and frequently antagonistic power-sharing obligation between the Order and the Archbishopric, formalized through repeated imperial and papal arbitrations rather than genuine cooperation.

The "bumpy bottom" die variety cataloged under Haljak II#412 distinguishes this from otherwise near-identical Riga pfennig issues of the period — a small but diagnostically useful feature in a series where die identification is the primary means of attribution.