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1 Ferding - Eric XIV Type 1, without crown
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1561-1562 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central shield of the arms of Reval, quartered by a cross, enclosed within a beaded inner border. The shield displays the city's heraldic device and is surmounted by a small ornamental element. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads MONE · NOVA · REVAL · followed by the date expressed in the abbreviated form characteristic of these issues (6Z for 1562). The overall composition is typical of late 16th-century Baltic municipal coinage struck by hammering. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONE · NOVA · REVAL · 6Z (Translation: Moneta Nova Revaliensis New coin of Reval) |
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Eric XIV inherited the Swedish throne in 1560 and almost immediately found himself navigating the political complexity of Reval's submission to Swedish protection — the city formally accepted Swedish overlordship in June 1561, escaping the collapse of the Livonian Confederation and the advancing threat of Muscovite forces under Ivan the Terrible. These ferdings were struck under that new arrangement, with Reval retaining its own municipal coinage rights even as Swedish authority displaced the old Livonian Order's political structure.
The Type 1 designation — without crown — reflects an early transitional die choice before the crowned variant superseded it, likely within the same two-year window. Haljak's numbering places this among the first issues of the Swedish period in Reval.