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1 Schilling - Johannes III von der Rope
| Issuer | Bishopric of Dorpat |
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| Year | 1499-1505 |
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| Currency | Schilling (1422-1558) |
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| Reverse description | Central device comprising a sword and a pastoral key crossed in saltire, surmounted by a stylised archiepiscopal wishbone-shaped ornament, all set within a plain field. The composition represents the arms of the Bishopric of Dorpat. A circular legend in Gothic uncial characters runs along the periphery, separated from the central device by a beaded inner circle. |
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| Reverse lettering | mOnETA : TARPATE (Translation: Moneta Doraptensis Coin of Dorpat) |
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The Bishopric of Dorpat — centered on present-day Tartu in Estonia — was a Livonian ecclesiastical state perpetually caught between the competing pressures of the Livonian Order, the Archbishop of Riga, and the encroaching interests of Novgorod and later Muscovy. Johannes III von der Rope held the see from 1498 until his death in 1515, a period during which Ivan III of Moscow was aggressively dismantling Novgorodian independence and pushing military pressure westward into Livonian territory. The billon content reflects chronic silver shortages that plagued the smaller Livonian mints throughout the late 15th century.