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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4894723, member: 96898"]Finally – its medieval Monday! Today, since I have never shown it before in its entirety, I'm going to post my small collection of coins of the Teutonic Order. In the 1226, the Teutonic knights started a campaign against the pagan Prussians, conquered their land, established a sovereign "state," and soon began to strike their own coins. Small bracteate pennies like these were used for everyday transactions. The earliest bracteates of the Order are larger and somewhat more complex, but I have none to show.[ATTACH=full]1181190[/ATTACH]Teutonic Order, anonymous issue, AR bracteate penny, ca. 1290–1410, unknown mint. Obv: shield of the Teutonic Order, three pellets above. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 14mm, 0.16g. Ref: Waschinski 80b; Eggert 12a. [ATTACH=full]1181187[/ATTACH] Teutonic Order, anonymous issue, AR bracteate penny, ca. 1290–1410, unknown mint (Thorn?). Obv: castle gate with three "windows" and three spires ending in spheres; in gate, small cross pattée. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 14.5mm, 0.18. Ref: Waschinski 123(a?). [ATTACH=full]1181184[/ATTACH] Teutonic Order, anonymous issue, AR bracteate penny, ca. 1290–1410, unknown mint. Obv: Latin cross flanked by two saltires. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 15mm, 0.21g. Ref: Waschinski 158. This type is disputed and unsusual. Maybe it was produced by the knights, maybe it's a Polish issue imitating the cross bracteates of the Order:[ATTACH=full]1181185[/ATTACH]Teutonic Order (?), anonymous issue, AR bracteate penny, ca. 1290–1410, unknown mint. Obv: cross with forked ends. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 13mm, 0.15g. Ref: Waschinski 179a. [ATTACH=full]1181183[/ATTACH] Teutonic Order, anonymous issue, AR bracteate penny, ca. 1290–1410, unknown mint (Danzig?). Obv: rectangle in the shape of a Gothic “D” ornamented by two crosses, the l. cross in the shape of a cloverleaf; star to r.. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 14mm, 0.21g. Ref: Waschinski 201. Under Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode (r. 1351–1382), the order started to also strike larger, two-sided coins. Production of the vierchen (4 pennies) and the halbschoter (16 pennies) were soon abandoned again, but the shilling (12 pennies) remained as the large dominant coin of the Order. I know that [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER] has a particularly beautiful example. [ATTACH=full]1181186[/ATTACH]Teutonic Order, under Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode, AR shilling, 1351–1382, Thorn or Danzig mint (?). Obv: + MAGST WVNRICS PRIMS; eagle shield of the Grand Master. Rev: + MONETA DNORVM PRUCI; shield of the Teutonic Order. 21mm, 1.64g. Ref: Neumann 4. [ATTACH=full]1181188[/ATTACH] Teutonic Order, under Grand Master Michael Küchmeister, AR shilling, 1414–1422 AD, Thorn mint (?). Obv: * MAGST * MIChAEL : PRI; eagle shield of the Grand Master. Rev: * MONETA.DNORVM.PRV; shield of the Teutonic Order. 20.5mm, 1.52g. Ref: Neumann 14b. [ATTACH=full]1181189[/ATTACH] Teutonic Order, under Grand Master Conrad V von Erlichshausen, AR schilling,1441–1449, Thorn mint (?). Obv: + MAGST CORADVS QVIN; eagle shield of the Grand Master on long cross. Rev: + MONETA DNORVM PRUs; shield of the Teutonic Order on long cross. 20.5mm, 1.48g. Ref: Neumann 23. The Livonian branch of the Order struck their own coinage, often in a similar design:[ATTACH=full]1181191[/ATTACH] Livonian Order, anonymous issue (under Cisso von Ruttenberg or Jan Freitag von Loringhofen?), AR artig, 14th/15th century, Reval mint. Obv: +MAGISTRI x LIVONIE, shield of the Order. Rev:  +MONETA x REVALIE; cross with three pellets in each quadrant. 18.5mm, 1.2g. Ref:  Neumann 204a; Haljak 6; Hutten-Czapski 4054.[/QUOTE]

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