1 Schilling - Jodokus von der Recke Two shields with curved tops

The Bishopric of Dorpat — a prince-bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire centered on present-day Tartu, Estonia — was already in its final decades when Jodokus von der Recke struck this coin. The Livonian War, launched by Ivan IV in 1558, would end episcopal coinage entirely; Dorpat fell to Russian forces that same year, and the bishopric was dissolved shortly after. Von der Recke himself had been elected bishop in 1543, giving him fewer than fifteen years of rule before the city changed hands permanently.

Haljak II#647 is among the scarcer schilling varieties of this episcopate.