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1 Schilling - Hermann II Wesel With shield, key down
| Issuer | Bishopric of Dorpat |
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| Year | 1554 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing a stylized branch with trefoil flowers, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The episcopal arms are rendered in a Gothic hammered style typical of Baltic Livonian coinage of the mid-sixteenth century. A circular Latin legend surrounds the inner circle, reading in abbreviated form the name and title of the issuing bishop. The overall composition is characteristic of late medieval ecclesiastical billon schillings of the Dorpat Bishopric. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONE · NOVA · TA · 54 (Translation: Moneta Nova Darpatensis New coin of Dorpat) |
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Hermann II Wesel held the see of Dorpat — a contested Livonian bishopric caught between the deteriorating Livonian Confederation and the mounting pressure of Ivan the Terrible's westward ambitions — from 1552 until the catastrophic Russian invasion of 1558, which effectively ended the diocese's independent coinage forever. This schilling was struck just four years before Dorpat fell to Muscovite forces in July 1558, after which the city was looted and its population decimated. The bishopric never recovered its political or monetary autonomy.
The Haljak II#687b designation distinguishes this by the key-down shield orientation, a die variant within an already thinly documented series.