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1 Schilling - Johan III Type 1, without circle
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1568-1592 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a crowned lion passant or rampant, rendered in the characteristic hammered style of the period, enclosed within a single inner circle. The lion, representing the arms of Reval, is shown with raised forepaw and detailed mane, the execution somewhat coarse due to the hammered technique. A Latin peripheral legend surrounds the inner circle, partially legible on this irregularly shaped flan, identifying the coin as a new coinage of Reval. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Reval's civic coinage operated under a peculiar jurisdictional tension throughout the latter sixteenth century: the city held mint rights as a free imperial city while simultaneously navigating Swedish suzerainty following the 1561 submission to Erik XIV. Johan III's accession in 1568 did not immediately resolve the city's monetary autonomy, and these schillings were struck across more than two decades of that uneasy arrangement. The "without circle" designation distinguishes this die grouping from a closely related type — a subtle variation that matters considerably to specialists working the Haljak sequence.