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1 Skilling - Erik Valkendorf
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Nidaros (Norway) |
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| Year | 1510-1522 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | SANCTVSⵓOLAWSⵓREXⵓNORVEG`ⵓ (Translation: Saint Olaf, King of Norway.) |
| Reverse description | At center, a shield charged with three wings arranged around a central rose, the heraldic arms of Archbishop Erik Valkendorf, set upon a long cross that divides the surrounding legend into four segments. The design is contained within an inner solid ring and a smaller beaded circle, with a further beaded ring at the periphery; the encircling legend in uncial Latin fills the space between the inner rings and the outer beaded border. The reverse composition, like the obverse, is characteristic of hammered ecclesiastical coinage of early sixteenth-century Scandinavia. |
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Erik Valkendorf served as Archbishop of Nidaros from 1510 until his forced exile in 1522, when Christian II — whose expansionist policies in Sweden Valkendorf had openly opposed — stripped him of the archbishopric. Valkendorf fled to Rome to press his case before Pope Leo X, but died there in 1522 before any resolution came. These skillings represent the full span of his tenure, the last coinage struck under independent archiepiscopal monetary authority at Nidaros before the Reformation dismantled the see entirely within the following decades.