1 Scherf - Dietrich V Hake

Dietrich V Hake served as Bishop of Dorpat from 1471 to 1484 — if this dating attribution of 1485–1498 reflects a posthumous continuation of his type rather than his actual reign, it would not be unusual for the Livonian ecclesiastical mints, where die use routinely outlasted the authority that authorized them. The Bishopric of Dorpat operated under persistent pressure from both the Livonian Order and Novgorod throughout the fifteenth century, and small billon scherffs functioned as the workhorse of local petty commerce along the eastern Baltic trade routes.