Bogislaw X unified the scattered Pomeranian duchies under a single rule in 1478, ending decades of dynastic partition that had fragmented the territory since the Treaty of Stettin in 1464. The Garz mint, operating on Rügen, was one of several regional mints he brought under tighter ducal control as part of that consolidation. This schilling was struck just years before his famous barefoot pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1496 — a political as much as religious act, designed to burnish his authority across both ecclesiastical and secular spheres. Levinson's I-289a designation distinguishes this by die characteristics from closely related Stralsund-area issues of the same period.
Bogislaw X unified the scattered Pomeranian duchies under a single rule in 1478, ending decades of dynastic partition that had fragmented the territory since the Treaty of Stettin in 1464. The Garz mint, operating on Rügen, was one of several regional mints he brought under tighter ducal control as part of that consolidation. This schilling was struck just years before his famous barefoot pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1496 — a political as much as religious act, designed to burnish his authority across both ecclesiastical and secular spheres. Levinson's I-289a designation distinguishes this by die characteristics from closely related Stralsund-area issues of the same period.