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1 Pfennig - Wolter von Plettenberg and Jasper Linde Riga, one shield, smooth bottom with left half shaded
| Issuer | Livonian Order and Archbishopric of Riga |
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| Year | 1509-1524 |
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| Currency | Schilling (1500-1561) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a shield bearing the cross of the Livonian Order with the lower-left half shaded, the surface of the shield otherwise plain. The shield is centrally positioned in the field and enclosed by a circular legend in uncial Latin characters. The overall style is characteristic of late medieval hammered coinage of the Baltic region, with irregular flan and shallow relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRI · LIVONI (Translation: Magistri Livoniae Master of Livonia) |
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Wolter von Plettenberg, Landmeister of the Livonian Order from 1494 until his death in 1535, is best remembered for halting the Muscovite advance at the Battle of Smolina in 1502 — a victory that secured a six-year truce with Ivan III and bought the Baltic provinces a generation of relative stability. The joint coinage with Archbishop Jasper Linde reflects the uneasy administrative partnership between the Order and the Archbishopric that defined Livonian governance throughout this period. Linde held the see of Riga from 1509 to 1524, which brackets this issue precisely.
The Haljak II classification distinguishes this variety by the smooth bottom bar of the shield and the left-half shading — details that matter enormously in attributing these diminutive billon pieces, where die variants proliferate and misattribution is routine.