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1 Heller
| Issuer | Rottweil, City of |
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| Year | 1356 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a raised open hand (the civic emblem of Rottweil) in high relief, with fingers extended upward, occupying the majority of the flat field. The design is executed in the crude, bold style typical of 14th-century south German municipal coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly cupped, consistent with hand-hammered production. No surrounding legend is present on this side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rottweil held the status of Free Imperial City from 1268, answering directly to the emperor rather than any territorial lord — a legal standing that underpinned its right to strike coinage. The heller denomination itself originated at Schwäbisch Hall in the early thirteenth century and spread across the southwestern German-speaking lands as a low-value silver fraction for daily exchange. By 1356, the year the Golden Bull formalized the electoral constitution of the Empire, Rottweil was at the height of its regional influence, commanding trade routes through the upper Neckar valley.