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4 Pfennig - Sigismund
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1597 |
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| Currency | Mark (1561-1710) |
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| Obverse lettering | SIGIS · D · G · SVE · & · POL · REX 9 S 7 (Translation: Sigismund Dei Gratia Sveciae et Polonia Rex Sigismund, with God`s grace, King of Sweden and Poland) |
| Reverse description | A crowned shield at center bears three stacked lions passant, the heraldic arms of the city of Reval. The denomination numeral and initial are divided on either side of the shield. A circular Latin legend surrounding the design proclaims the coin as a new civic issue of Reval. |
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Reval — present-day Tallinn — was under Swedish suzerainty by the 1560s, having submitted to Erik XIV in 1561 to escape the collapse of the Livonian Order. This coin was struck under the municipal authority of the city during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa, who simultaneously held the Swedish and Polish-Lithuanian thrones, a dual kingship that would ultimately fracture Vasa dynastic control of the Baltic entirely. The city retained its own minting rights throughout this period, a privilege jealously guarded by the merchant oligarchy.
Billon issues of this denomination circulated heavily in local trade and survive almost universally in worn condition.