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1 Schilling - Wolter von Plettenberg Reval, hollow dot with mixed lettering
| Issuer | Livonian Order |
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| Year | 1532 |
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| Value | 1 Schilling |
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| Reverse description | A bold long cross pattée occupies the entire field, dividing it into four quarters, each containing a letter from the abbreviated legend MA - GIS - TR - LIV (Magistri Livoniae, 'Master of Livonia'). The letters are rendered in Gothic uncial script and enclosed within a beaded inner circle. An outer circular border of beading frames the composition, consistent with the hammered technique and the irregular fabric characteristic of early sixteenth-century Livonian schillings struck at Reval. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Wolter von Plettenberg was the most consequential Livonian Order master of the sixteenth century, having defeated a Russian invasion force at the Battle of the Smolina River in 1502 — a victory significant enough that Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I elevated him to the rank of Imperial Prince in 1526. This schilling was struck six years after that elevation, near the end of Plettenberg's exceptionally long tenure as master, which ran from 1494 until his death in 1535. The hollow dot and mixed Gothic-Roman lettering combination distinguishes this die variety within the Haljak sequence from otherwise near-identical issues of the same period.