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1 Heller
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1347-1378 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Imperial eagle displayed with wings spread and head turned to sinister, rendered in a bold, stylized medieval manner typical of hammered bracteate-style coinage. The eagle's plumage is summarily indicated by incised lines, and the overall design fills the irregular flan without a surrounding legend or border. |
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| Reverse description | Imperial crown depicted in high relief at center, flanked by two symmetrical foliate or branch-like ornaments, all enclosed within a curved frame suggestive of an arch or wreath. The design is characteristic of mid-14th-century Frankfurt municipal coinage, with no surrounding legend. The relief is bold and the coin's irregular flan is typical of hammered production. |
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Frankfurt's heller coinage of this period derives from the Heller — originally minted at Schwäbisch Hall — which became so ubiquitous in the Holy Roman Empire that it functionally defined the smallest unit of account across much of medieval Germany. Frankfurt, holding imperial city status, exercised the minting rights that came with it, producing issues whose dating range spans the reigns of Charles IV, including the years immediately following the Golden Bull of 1356, which codified imperial electoral structure but left smaller city mints largely to their own administrative devices.