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1 Schilling - Freytag von Loringhoven Wenden
| Issuer | Livonian Order |
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| Year | 1483-1494 |
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| Thickness | 0.7 mm |
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| Reverse description | A long Latin cross extends to the inner beaded circle, dividing the surrounding legend into four sections between its arms, a compositional arrangement typical of Livonian Order schillings of the fifteenth century. The cross is rendered in a plain, upright style with no additional ornamentation at the terminals. The surrounding legend in uncial Latin, reading MON - ETA - WEN - ENS -, identifies the coin as the Moneta Wendensis, or Coin of Wenden, the principal mint town of the Livonian Order. The flan is irregular and somewhat buckled, as is consistent with hammered billon coinage of this era. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Bernd von der Borch's successor as Master of the Livonian Order, Johann Freitag von Loringhoven, held the position from 1483 to 1494 — a tenure marked by the Order's deepening financial strain and its increasingly complicated relationship with both the Archbishop of Riga and the encroaching ambitions of Lithuania and Muscovy. Wenden, the Order's administrative capital in modern-day Latvia, operated its mint under direct chapter authority, producing schillings of notoriously variable silver content as bullion supplies tightened across the Baltic.