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1/2 Heller - Wilhelm II
| Issuer | German East Africa |
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| Year | 1904-1906 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The denomination is displayed in two lines at the centre of the field, with the fraction numeral 1/2 above and the word HELLER below, all enclosed within a wreath of oak and laurel branches tied at the base. The mint mark J appears in the lower exergual area between the wreath ties, indicating production at the Hamburg Mint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/2 HELLER J |
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German East Africa's subsidiary coinage was struck at the Berlin mint under authority of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft, the chartered company that administered the territory before the Imperial German government assumed direct colonial control in 1891. By the time this half-Heller was issued, the colony was still absorbing the fiscal shock of the Maji Maji Rebellion, which erupted in 1905 and ultimately cost Germany an estimated 200,000 African lives and a significant treasury expenditure to suppress.