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| Issuer | Archbishopric of Riga |
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| Year | 1540-1547 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a two-field divided heraldic shield bearing a cross on the left and an archbishop's crosier on the right, the symbols of episcopal and secular authority. The shield is set upon a plain field and enclosed by a beaded border. A Latin devotional legend encircles the design between the inner and outer rims. The coin is struck in the typical irregular hammered fabric of mid-sixteenth-century Baltic billon coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1540 - (15)04; Date in reverse shield reversed - 1540 - (15)40; Date in obverse legend - 1540 - (15)40; Date in reverse shield - 1540 - (15)40; Date in reverse shield and line dividing shield missing - ND (1540-1547) - - 1541 - (15)41; Date in obverse legend - 1541 - (15)41; Date in reverse shield - 1541 - (15)41/40; 41 in obverse legend and 40 in reverse shield - 1542 - (15)4S; Date in obverse legend - 1542 - (15)4S; Date in reverse shield - 1544 - (15)44 - 1544 - (15)44/42; 42 in obverse legend and 44 in reverse shield - 1545 - (15)45; Date in obverse legend - 1545 - (15)45; Date in reverse shield - 1545 - (15)45/45; Date in obverse and reverse legends - 1546 - (15)46 - 1546 - (15)46; Cross and crosier reversed - 1546 - (15)46; Upside-down 6 - 1547 - (15)47 - |
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