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1 Schilling - Jodokus von der Recke One shield with bumpy top and pointy bottom, sword right, key left
| Issuer | Bishopric of Dorpat |
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| Year | 1546-1551 |
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| Weight | 1.15 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IODOCVS · RE · EP · DA (Translation: Jodokus Recke Episcopus Darpatensis Jodokus Recke, Bishop of Dorpat) |
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Dorpat's bishops struck these schillings during one of the most precarious decades in Livonian history, with the Livonian Order fraying under Lutheran pressure and Ivan IV's Russia tightening its grip on the eastern frontier. Jodokus von der Recke, who held the see from 1543 until the collapse that preceded the Livonian War, was among the last Catholic bishops to exercise real temporal authority in the region. The billon content of these pieces reflects chronic silver shortages common to the smaller Livonian ecclesiastical mints of the mid-sixteenth century.