1 Schilling - Johan III Type 1, without circle

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.