1 Schilling - Johannes VI Bey Pointy shields, dotted circle

The Bishopric of Dorpat — the ecclesiastical territory centered on modern Tartu in Estonia — issued coinage under increasingly desperate circumstances during Johannes VI's tenure, as the Livonian Order and the surrounding Baltic powers jostled for control of the region's trade routes. The Reformation was actively dismantling episcopal authority across the Baltic, and Dorpat's minting activity in this period reflects an institution asserting itself financially even as its political ground eroded. Johannes VI held the see until Dorpat's capitulation to Ivan the Terrible's forces in 1558, which ended the bishopric entirely.

Haljak II#624 distinguishes this variety by the pointy shields and dotted circle — minor but catalogued die characteristics that help sequence the type within the broader Dorpat schilling series.