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1 Schilling - Johannes VI by Pointy shields with regular squiggles, sword left, key right and up
| Issuer | Bishopric of Dorpat |
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| Year | 1540-1542 |
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| Thickness | 0.7 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays two pointed heraldic shields arranged side by side within a beaded inner circle, the left shield bearing a sword pointing downward and the right shield bearing a key oriented upward, rendered in the Gothic style characteristic of Livonian ecclesiastical coinage. The shields are flanked by decorative foliate or squiggle ornaments. A partial Latin legend encircles the inner circle, partially legible through the coin's worn and irregular hammered flan. The overall design is crude but typical of mid-sixteenth-century Livonian billon schillings, struck on an uneven planchet with characteristic irregular edges. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMI · IOHA · EL · TA (Translation: Dominus Johannes Elector Darpatensis Johannes, elected Master of Dorpat) |
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Dorpat's schillings of this period were minted under Johann VIII von Geldern (known in Estonian sources as Johannes VI), whose episcopate coincided with the Livonian Confederation's deepening internal fractures and the first serious pressure from Reformation theology filtering in from Riga and Reval. The die variety distinguished by pointy shields and the sword-left, key-right arrangement is catalogued separately by Haljak precisely because Dorpat struck from multiple working dies across short campaigns — the billon content itself varying slightly between runs as silver supplies tightened.