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1 Schilling - Jodokus von der Recke One shield with bumpy top and pointy bottom, sword left, key right
| Issuer | Bishopric of Dorpat |
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| Year | 1546-1551 |
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| Thickness | 0.7 mm |
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| Reverse description | A sword and a key crossed in saltire occupy the central field, representing the emblems of the Bishopric of Dorpat. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with a Latin legend encircling the periphery. The overall composition is characteristic of Baltic episcopal billon schillings of the mid-sixteenth century, struck by the hammered technique on an irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jodokus von der Recke held the Dorpat see during one of the most precarious stretches in Livonian history — the Reformation had already hollowed out episcopal authority across the Baltic, and the Livonian Order was feuding with its own suffragan bishops over jurisdiction and revenue. Coinage from this episcopate is sparse not because it was poorly struck but because the institutional infrastructure to produce it consistently was collapsing. Von der Recke's tenure ended in 1551, just over a decade before the Livonian War reduced Dorpat itself to a ruin under Ivan IV's forces.