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1 Halbling - Henry I
| Issuer | Hessen, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1263-1308 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | H - V - H - V |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry I of Hessen ruled as landgrave from 1264 to 1308, one of the longer reigns of the medieval German principalities, and his bracteate halfpennies circulated across a territory still consolidating its political independence from Thuringia and Mainz. The Halblings of this period are among the thinnest and most fragile silver pieces produced in the region — at 0.17g, striking without cracking the flan demanded genuine skill from the die-cutters.
The Schütz and Hävernick references place this squarely within a contested attribution sequence; minor die variants across Henry's long reign have made precise dating within the 1263–1308 window difficult.