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So I Came Across A Few Nice Riga Free City 1 Schilling Coins

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tdziemia
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Presumably the logic for using c.450 - c.1500 is laid out in Volume 1 of the Medieval European Coinage series (which is not in my numismatic library ... yet).
Not being "schooled" in history, I found those defining characteristics around "those who work/fight/pray" interesting, though it makes me wonder how coinage, and specifically its design and use fits in that framework. I can even imagine that money and how it was used in the (medieval) economy could have one set of considerations/boundaries/dates, whereas its design and manufacture could have a different set?
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just got 2 more in the mail and waiting on 3 more - when they arrive I'll post all 5..
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ok final 5 are here (finally)

1576 Riga Free City - Type 4 - 1 Shilling
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1577 Riga Free City - Type 4 - 1 Shilling
Medal Alignment
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1577 Riga Free City - Type 4 - 1 Shilling
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1578 Riga Free City - Type 4 - 1 Shilling
Inverted 78
Medal Alignment
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1579 Riga Free City - Type 4 - 1 Shilling
Medal Alignment
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Very nice!
I like that this series has some neat errors like upside down dates that (I am guessing) do not cost an-arm-and-a-leg. And it's a nice example of mixing only subtly religious devices (the crossed keys) with secular ones (city gates).
I don't recall seeing that combo elsewhere. Genoa has a (stylized) city gate, but with a cross reverse. Of course many places have the crossed keys, but I don't recall one with a city gate on the other side (and I'm too lazy to search).

Anyhow, Stefan Batory broke up the design a few years after he took the reigns. The keys are kept on the schilling, but the city gate is replaced by his monogram. That design persists till Sweden invades in the 30 years' war (1628 I think).
The city gate moves over to the 1 groshcen coin that has his mug on the front (wait! the keys are there, too!):
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thanks tdz!
That 1581 you posted is a very nice full dated Thaler
Thanks for posting it here.
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Nice examples!
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Thanks jbuck
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Looks like I found another one.

1577 Riga Free City (medal alignment) - 1 Schilling
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Nice!

I think it was a date run like this of either Polish or Lithuanian half groats that got me sucked into the OFEY theme.

I bet you could do schillings from Livona and cover a lot of dates from the 1570s to the 1650s without breaking the bank.


I've got a few that I bought on ebay from 1630s/1640s, and the auction houses in that part of the world often sell them in small lots with different dates (100 PLN is about $25):
https://wcn.pl/archive/393645
https://wcn.pl/archive/402527
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Very nice!
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I got a minny class in medieval coinage, by reading this thread.
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