1 Schilling - Thomas Schöning Koknese, fancy cross, bumpy top and smooth bottom

Thomas Schöning served as Archbishop of Riga from 1528 until his death in 1539, presiding over a diocese caught between Lutheran reform sweeping through Livonia and the political pressures of the Livonian Confederation. By the mid-1530s, the Reformation had already taken firm hold in Riga's civic life, making these schillings among the final Catholic ecclesiastical issues from the city before the archbishopric's authority collapsed entirely within a generation.

The die variety distinguished here — fancy cross with bumpy top and smooth bottom — is one of several documented by Haljak for this type, reflecting the loose die-cutting practices common to smaller Livonian minting operations of the period.