1 Schilling - Johannes VI Bey Curvy shields, sword left, key right

Johannes VI Bey served as Bishop of Dorpat during a period of acute political instability in Livonia, as the Reformation fractured ecclesiastical authority across the Baltic and the Teutonic Order's grip on the region was visibly loosening. Dorpat's episcopal mint operated under constant pressure — from Lutheran townspeople, from competing Livonian powers, and eventually from the looming threat of Muscovite expansion that would culminate in Ivan the Terrible's invasion of 1558.

Billon at .1875 fine was already a concession to fiscal reality. Issues from this reign span over a decade precisely because the diocese kept minting through increasingly difficult circumstances rather than suspending production.